CAS Space, a Beijing-based rocket maker owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, launched a Kinetica 1 carrier rocket on Wednesday afternoon, successfully placing six satellites in their orbit.

The Kinetica 1-Y7 rocket lifted off at 12:05 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert, and deployed three remote-sensing satellites, a radar satellite, a mini weather satellite, and an experimental satellite in space, the company said in a news release.