The hat-trick of rocket launches in the first ten days of December can be seen as confirmation of the rapid advancement of China's commercial space industry.
"One, two, three!" An email was sent into space at the Macao Science Center on Sunday, witnessed by nearly 200 local students.
China on Tuesday sent a sea-launched rocket into space from the waters surrounding Haiyang, a coastal city in the eastern province of Shandong, placing four satellites into planned orbit.
A Long March-7A rocket carrying two satellites blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 23, 2021. The rocket blasted off at 6:12 p.m. (Beijing Time) at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in southern Hainan Province and soon sent Shiyan-12 01 and Shiyan-12 02 satellites into preset orbit. The mission marked the 402nd flight of the Long March carrier rockets.
Photo provided by the Astronaut Center of China shows Chinese female taikonaut Wang Yaping in the space station core module Tianhe.