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China launches new remote-sensing satellite
English.news.cn 2010-03-05 16:03:39 FeedbackPrintRSS

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A Long March 4C carrier rocket carrying a remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan IX", blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province,March 5, 2010. (Xinhua/Xu Haihan)

JIUQUAN, Gansu Province, March 5 (Xinhua) -- China has successfully put into orbit another remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan IX" at 12:55 p.m.(Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province, according to a statement from the center Friday.

The satellite was sent into space aboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket and would be used to conduct scientific experiment, carry out surveys on land resources, forecast grain output and help with natural disaster-reduction and prevention endeavor, it said.

Its predecessor, "Yaogan VIII," was launched from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province last December.
 
Congrats to our chinese brothers.
 
Congrats to great Nation of China :china::bounce: our true friends
 
it is the 123th launch of the CZ/Long March.
 
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