China on Wednesday launched a Lijian-1 Y4 commercial carrier rocket with five satellites onboard.The rocket blasted off on Thursday morning (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and sent a group of satellites, including the Jilin-1 SAR01A satellite and Yunyao-1 21-22 satellites, into their planned orbits, according to China's News Agency (Xinhua).These satellites will be used to conduct scientific experiments, conduct surveys on land resources, estimate crop yields and help reduce and prevent natural disasters.On Tuesday, China launched a Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket from the waters near the city of Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province, placing eight satellites into planned orbit. The commercial rocket blasted off carrying Tianyi-41 and other satellites.On September, 6, China launched ten remote sensing satellites into space to test new technologies for low-orbit satellite constellations.Source: Qatar News Agency