According to Space, a Long March 2D rocket launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China on June 15 around 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530 GMT, or 13:30 local time).A total of 41 tiny satellites were sent into space after insulation tiles came from the rocket. These were the Jilin-1 GF06A0 satellites 1–30, Jilin-1GF03D satellites 19–26, HEGS-1, and Jilin-1 PT02A01/02 for the Changguang Satellite (CGST) Chinese commercial remote sensing satellite enterprise.Just days before, a Lijian 1 rocket created by for-profit company CAS Space launched 26 satellites, breaking the previous Chinese record. The overall record, reached in January 2021 by SpaceX’s Transporter-1 rideshare mission, is 143 satellites. The Thursday satellite launches mostly expand the Jilin-1 commercial remote sensing constellation of CGST. By 2025, CGST hopes to launch more than 300 satellites into orbit, more than doubling its initial goal of launching 138 Jilin-1 spacecraft.The Golden Bauhinia satellites 37–38, also known as the Jilin-1 Gaofen 06A17–18 satellites, are small, light, high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites. It was China’s 24th launch of the year. In 2023, the nation intends to launch more than 200 spacecraft.