Long March 3B rocket launches with Chinasat 6D communications space satellite. Credit: CASC. Two Chinese rocket launches were made Friday, and successfully deployed a radio- and TV broadcasting satellite and an atmospheric monitoring satellite. The missions from different spaceports lifted off a little more than six hours apart, continuing China’s 2022 launch campaign, a schedule highlighted by planned flights to expand the country’s space station. A Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang launch base in Sichuan province at 1200 GMT (8 a.m. EDT; 8 p.m. Beijing time) Friday with the Chinasat 6D, or Zhongxing 6D, communications satellite....