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China Launches New Remote Sensing Satellite

The rocket blasted off at 12:12 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China and sent the Gaojing-3 01 satellite into the preset orbit.


16th April 2024 08:14 AM

China said it launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket, placing a remote-sensing satellite into space.

The satellite would provide commercial remote sensing data services for emerging scenarios such as digital agriculture, urban information modeling and live 3D.

It is as well as traditional fields including land surveying and mapping, disaster prevention and mitigation, and maritime monitoring, which  was the 516th flight mission of the Long March series of rockets.