China launches new satellite for Earth observation

A Long March-4C rocket carrying the satellite Gaofen-3 02 blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Nov. 23, 2021. The new Earth-observation satellite was launched at 7:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully.

JIUQUAN, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- China launched a new Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday.

The satellite, Gaofen-3 02, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully.

The satellite will operate in a solar synchronous orbit at an altitude of 755 km and will be networked with the orbiting Gaofen-3 satellite to form a land-sea radar satellite constellation. It will improve the monitoring capabilities of marine ship observations, as well as the monitoring of emergencies at sea and the land-sea natural environment.

It will serve the fields of marine disaster prevention and mitigation, dynamic marine environment monitoring, environmental protection, water conservancy, agriculture and meteorology.

The Gaofen-3 02 satellite was developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, and the carrier rocket by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.

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