On 17th March 2022, the Belt and Road Initiative CNSA –China National Space Administration launched Remote 34 02 Remote Sensing –Earth Science Satellite At 15:09 Afternoon Hong Kong SAR – Beijing Time on March 17th 2022, the Chang Zheng4C Long March 4C carrier rocket ignited and took off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center – Inner Mongolia –China – People’s Republic of China, and then sent the remote sensing 34 02 satellite into the predetermined orbit for launch. Complete success.
酒泉卫星发射中 China – People’s Republic of China, successfully The RS-34 02 satellite was developed by the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It forms a network operation state with the satellites of RS-34 01 and subsequent satellites already in orbit. It is mainly used for land census, urban planning, and land confirmation. It can meet the needs of rapid revisiting of earth observation, and can provide information guarantee for the construction of the “Belt and Road”. The scheduled orbit, the launch mission was a complete success. The satellite is mainly used to provide information services such as land census, urban planning, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation.
The Long March 4C carrier rocket is a normal temperature liquid three-stage carrier rocket developed by the Eighth Academy. It has the ability to launch various types of satellites with different orbit requirements. It can carry out one-shot, single-satellite or multi-satellite launches, and its sun-synchronous circular orbit carrying capacity up to 3 tons.
The rocket is also equipped with the final sub-stage verification system developed by the Eighth Academy, using the final sub-stage of the rocket that has completed the main task to build a carrying platform and carry out technical verification.
This launch is the 411th launch of the Long March series of launch vehicles
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