China launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket on Thursday, placing two satellites into space.

The rocket blasted off at 3:08 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and sent the pair of satellites, Siwei Gaojing-1 03 and Siwei Gaojing-1 04, into their preset orbit.

It was the 561st flight mission of the Long March series of rockets