Long March-4B rocket carrying satellites coded as the 03 Group of the Shijian-6 serial research satellites blasts off from the launch pad at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, north China's Shanxi Province, on Saturday morning, October 25, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]

China successfully fired two satellites into space on the back of a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Saturday morning.

The projectiles were coded as the 03 Group of the Shijian-6 serial research satellites, Xinhua News Agency reports.

(CRIENGLISH.com October 26, 2008)