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

The rocket blasted off at 06:51 (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province and sent the pair of satellites, Siwei Gaojing-2 05 and Siwei Gaojing-2 06, into their preset orbit.

It was the 634th flight mission of the Long March series rockets.