At 19:06 on October 15, 2024, the Long March 6A launch vehicle was launched at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, successfully deploying Qianfan Jigui-02 group of satellites into their destination orbits, signaling a complete success of the launch mission. 

The Long March 6A launch vehicle, which carried out this launch mission, is a new generation medium-lift launch vehicle with solid-fuel and liquid propellant developed by Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), with a payload capacity of no less than 4.5 tons for deploying satellites into a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit. With a modular, combined, and series development approach, the launch vehicle can be developed with various configurations through booster adjustments in the future, meeting the growing demand for the diverse and intensive launch requirements of satellites.

As a new-generation main medium-lift launch vehicle in China, Long March 6A launch vehicle has now reached a stage of intensive launches. With a “first flight mindset”, the test team treats every launch mission as if it were the first, and strictly follows the procedures at the launch site to complete their tasks. During this mission, the test team continuously improved and optimized the workflows at the launch site. While maintaining a tight and orderly progress, they strived to shorten the testing and launch cycles in order to effectively respond to future demands for intensive launches.

The Qianfan Jigui-02 group of satellites luanched in this mission were managed by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology Ltd. and developed by Shanghai Gesi Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd.

This launch mission is the 8^th launch of Long March 6A launch vehicle, the 220^th flight test of the Long March series of launch vehicles developed by SAST, and the 539^th launch of China's Long March series of launch vehicles.