BEIJING, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

CARRIER ROCKET

China on Wednesday launched a Lijian-1 Y2 carrier rocket with 26 satellites onboard.

The rocket blasted off at 12:10 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, and sent a group of experiment satellites into the planned orbits.

FIRST GENERATION STAR

An international research team has discovered the oldest known star in the Galactic halo. Their findings indicate that it was born in the gas cloud left by a first generation star with a mass up to 260 times that of our Sun. This discovery has improved mankind's understanding of the first stars and the evolution of the Milky Way and the universe.

The new study led by Chinese astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatories of China under the Chinese Academy of Sciences was published online in Nature on Wednesday.

FOLDABLE SILICON WAFERS

Chinese researchers have provided a strategy for fabricating large-scale, foldable silicon wafers and manufacturing flexible solar cells, according to a recent research article published in the journal Nature.

The researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences acknowledged that the edge-blunting technique enables commercial production of large-scale, high-efficiency silicon solar cells that can be rolled similarly to a sheet of paper. Enditem

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