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XICHANG, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Tuesday to place a remote sensing satellite group in space.
The China Space Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced on Saturday it has successfully launched 36 remote-sensing satellites into space for scientific exploration.
The fifth batch of the Yaogan-35 family, the satellites were lifted at 12:19 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan and entered the preset orbit.
They will be mainly used to conduct scientific experiments, land resource surveys, agricultural product yield estimation, and disaster prevention and mitigation.
This mission is the 436th flight of the Long March carrier rockets.
The latest launch comes a day after China sent into space its new Chuangxin-16 satellite for scientific experiments and verifying new technologies.
China’s space missions continue unabated even after the US on Tuesday added at least seven of its entities, mostly related to aerospace, to its export control list.
Washington said the Chinese entities were added to export control because of “national security and foreign policy concerns.
The satellite will be mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land right confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation.
It will also provide information for the development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
The same carrier rocket also sent the Gravity & Atmosphere Scientific Satellite (Q-SAT) into space.
The Q-SAT satellite, developed by Tsinghua University, will help with the satellite system design approach and orbital atmospheric density measurement, among others.
