The Long March-6 rocket blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China’s Shanxi Province yesterday, sending nine commercial satellites into space. This is the 366th flight mission of the Long March rocket series. The satellites, including Qilu-1 and Qilu-4, have entered their planned orbits and will provide East China’s Shandong Province with remote sensing services for land survey, urban construction, agriculture, forestry, energy, disaster prevention and reduction. Other satellites on board the rocket will be used to test technologies in satellite platform design, real-time imaging and observation, data acquisition and transmission, or to offer observations of small celestial bodies and remote sensing services.Xinhua