PTI, China will send two satellites next month using the indigenously made 'Long March IV' carrier rocket, the state media reported.
The satellites and the rocket, manufactured by the Shanghai Space Administration have left for the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi province, the report said. The single rocket will launch the two satellites into orbit.
China has successfully launched satellites in the past using the Long March series of carrier rockets.
Meanwhile, a Chinese satellite, currently in orbit has been beaming back data on space storms threatening the safety of spacecraft, the state media said.
Magnetic and high-energy-particle disruptions account for 40 per cent of the 6,000 glitches in satellite operations recorded so far.
The Probe-2 Satellite, which was launched 11 days ago, is orbiting from pole to pole. Five of the eight instruments it carries have already started to send back information.
Chinese and European scientists will analyse the collected data in November.
The information would help in the research of the unpredictable climate in space, such as space storms, and would protect satellites and manned spacecraft. Probe-2 comes under the Double Star Programme – the first such joint Sino-European project.
