A Chinese Long March 3B/YZ-1 successfully launched the BEIDOU-3 M13 and BEIDOU-3 M14 satellites into Medium Earth Orbit at 1407 GMT on 19 September from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan Province, China. The one metric ton satellites were built by the SECM – Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites and will be part of the Chinese Beidou (Compass) navigation satellite constellation.
Phil Hylands helped compile this report .