China successfully launched an Algerian remote sensing satellite on Saturday, and Chinese President Xi Jinping and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune exchanged congratulations on the mission’s success.
A Long March-2C carrier rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and placed the satellite into its planned orbit, marking the 629th flight of China’s Long March rocket family.
The satellite, developed under a cooperation agreement between the China Great Wall Industry Corporation and the Algerian Space Agency and that was designed to support land planning, disaster prevention and mitigation through remote sensing data and imagery.
Xi Jinping and Tebboune exchanged messages congratulating the teams involved in the launch. The Chinese leader hailed the mission as a symbol of deepening aerospace cooperation between the two countries, while Tebboune underscored its importance for Algeria’s technological and economic development.
The mission builds on earlier China-Algeria space collaborations, including the launch of Algeria’s first communications satellite, Alcomsat-1, in 2017.
The successful deployment of the remote sensing satellite signals a further strengthening of bilateral ties in space technology and reflects shared interests in advancing national and regional capabilities for environmental monitoring, planning and disaster response.
