BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) — The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

SATELLITES LAUNCH

China on Tuesday launched the Lijian-1 Y3 carrier rocket with five satellites onboard.

The rocket blasted off at 12:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, and sent a group of satellites into the planned orbits. This launch marks the third flight mission of the Lijian-1 carrier rocket series.

SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL

A Chinese enterprise has developed a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which will be made commercially available soon. This sustainable product marks a pioneering step for the country’s SAF mass production, according to Science and Technology Daily.

Junheng Biology is a private petrochemical enterprise located in central China’s Henan Province. After a five-year research and development phase, it has successfully converted kitchen waste oils into biodiesel and SAF by using its self-developed green and low-carbon biofuel technology, said Zhang Zhenhui, executive director of the enterprise.

LUNAR PROBE CHANG’E-7

Chinese space scientists have revealed in a paper the scientific goals and payloads mounted on the country’s lunar probe Chang’e-7 that will investigate the water ice in the shadow pit near the south pole of the moon.

The water ice and volatile components in lunar soil, the lunar morphology and composition, the moon’s internal structure and magnetic fields, the landscape of the lunar south pole, the Earth’s magnetotail and plasma layer, and Lunar-Earth Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) measurement experiment are among the mission’s scientific targets, according to a review article published recently in the journal National Science Review.