BEIJING: China launched a remote sensing satellite on Friday, which will join other satellites in space, the country’s aerospace officials said.
The China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation said in a statement that a Long March 4C carrier rocket successfully left the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Friday afternoon.
The statement added that it then accurately took the Yaogan 34-04 satellite into the predetermined orbit, and the mission was a complete success.
This is the 470th launch operation of the Long March series vehicles.
The launch centre is situated in the Desert of Gobi, Inner Mongolia.
Satellite’s purpose
CASTC said that the satellite would be mainly used for national land censuses, land rights confirmation, urban planning, crop yield estimation, road network design, disaster prevention, and mitigation, etc., to fulfill the needs of rapid revisiting of earth observation.
It added that the carrier rocket is “a room-temperature liquid 3-stage carrier rocket” made by the CASTC.
It can launch multiple types of satellites with different orbital needs and can conduct single-satellite or multi-satellite launches with one arrow mission; the 700-kilometre sun-synchronous orbit can carry up to 3 tons.
