China launches weather satellite, flights avoid no-fly zone to north of Taiwan

Taiwan’s transport ministry said Beijing had initially notified Taipei it would impose a no-fly zone from Sunday to Tuesday but later said that period had been reduced to 27 minutes on Sunday morning after Taiwan protested.China staged new war games around Taiwan,The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China’s main contractor for its space programme, said the weather satellite Fengyun 3G had successfully launched from the north-western province of Gansu at 9.36am.

The satellite then entered its set orbit, the contractor said, describing the launch as a “complete success”.It did not say what the flight path of the Long March 4B rocket carrying the satellite was, but the time coincides with China’s previous announcement about the no-fly zone. China has said it is inaccurate to call it a no-fly zone, though Taiwan has issued a notice to airmen, or Notam, that uses the wording “airspace blocked due to aerospace flight activity”.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said some debris from the rocket launch had fallen into the “warning zone” off the island’s northern coast, but it did not affect Taiwan’s territorial safety. Flights to and from Taiwan and China, Taiwan and South Korea and Taiwan and Japan were amongst those detouring around the zone on Sunday morning, according to routes tracked on Flightradar24.The zone is in an area over the East China Sea slightly north-east of Taiwan that routinely sees heavy civilian flight traffic.China has denounced what it has called hype around China’s space activities and an attempt to escalate confrontation across the Taiwan Strait.

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