China's Largest Carrier Rocket Long March-5 Makes New Flight

China launched the third Long March-5, the largest carrier rocket of the country, from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province on the evening of December 27, 2019.The rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y3, blasted off from the coastal launch center at 8:45 p.m.(Beijing time), carrying the Shijian-20 technological experiment satellite weighing over eight tonnes, the heaviest and most advanced communications satellite of the country.