China successfully launches Tianhui-4 satellite

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A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Tianhui-4 satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Dec. 29, 2021. China on Wednesday successfully sent the Tianhui-4 satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite was launched at 7:13 p.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)

JIUQUAN, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday successfully sent the Tianhui-4 satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwest of the country.

The satellite was launched by a Long March-2D carrier rocket at 7:13 p.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered its planned orbit.

The launch marked the 404th flight mission of the Long March series carrier rockets. Enditem

A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Tianhui-4 satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Dec. 29, 2021. China on Wednesday successfully sent the Tianhui-4 satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite was launched at 7:13 p.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)

A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Tianhui-4 satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Dec. 29, 2021. China on Wednesday successfully sent the Tianhui-4 satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite was launched at 7:13 p.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)

A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Tianhui-4 satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Dec. 29, 2021. China on Wednesday successfully sent the Tianhui-4 satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite was launched at 7:13 p.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)

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[Shotgunner51]

Good news! This 54th lunch of the year, one more to go.

Tianhui-4 is perhaps a pair of sat instead of a single sat, just like Tianhui-2. The launch give a boost to PLASSF's Tianhui remote sensing constellation (by now 11 sats in orbit) which is used for stereo-topographic mapping (e.g. data for TERCOM guidance of cruise missile) and ISR.

Video here ...

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