On August 30, 2019, at 23:41 (on August 31 at 02:41 Beijing time) the “Kuaizhou-1A” (“Speedy vessel”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited two experimental Chinese satellites.

On August 30, 2019 at 14:00 UTC the “Rockot” rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk region, North Russia. The rocket equipped with the “Briz-KM” booster orbited the “GEO-IK-2” geodetic surveying satellite for the Russian military. The “GEO-IK-2” satellites measure Earth’s shape, gravity field, rotation and tectonic movement. The information is used by the Russian military to aid satellite tracking, global navigation and inform the computation of missile trajectories.