China launches new communications satellite [Video]

China sent a new communications satellite into orbit at 8:25 p.m. Beijing Time on Thursday. The ChinaSat 4A satellite was launched atop a modified Long March-7 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern Hainan Province. The satellite will provide voice, data, radio and television transmission services. The launch was the 532nd flight mission of the Long March series of rockets.