WENCHANG, Hainan, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- China launched a Long March-12 carrier rocket from the southern island province of Hainan Thursday, sending a batch of internet satellites into space.

The rocket lifted off at 8:32 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. The payloads, the 25th group of low-orbit internet satellites, entered the designated orbit successfully.