Posted: Sat, Oct 25, 2025, 11:14 AM ET (1514 GMT)
China launched a classified GEO satellite Thursday. A Long March 5 lifted off at 10:30 a.m. Eastern from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center. Chinese officials announced after the launch that the payload was Communications Technology Experimental Satellite-20, or TJS-20, which they said will be used mainly to carry out multi-band and high-speed communication technology validation tests. The TJS satellites are seen by Western analysts as potentially carrying out classified missions including signals intelligence, early warning missions, technology tests and satellite inspection activities.

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