On December 07, 2014 at 03:26 UTC the “Long March – 2B” (“Changzheng-2B”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the CBERS-4 (China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite) satellite.

On December 06, 2014 at 20:40 UTC the “Ariane-5ECA” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited the “DIRECT-14” and the “GSAT-16” telecommunications satellites.