BEIJING – China launches three new satellites into space with new advancedtechnology.
China sent a resource satellite and two small satellites into plannedorbits from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxiprovince on Thursday.
They were launched on a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 11:26 local time.
The resource satellite, ZY-1 02D, will provide observation data for naturalresources asset management, ecological monitoring, disaster prevention andcontrol, environmental protection, urban construction, transportation andcontingency management.
With an expected lifespan of five years, ZY-1 02D, developed by the ChinaAcademy of Space Technology (CAST), will form a network with moresatellites to follow.
The launch center successfully applied several self-developed systems forthis launch mission.
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“For the ZY-1 02D mission, we applied over ten scientific and technologicalresults like the hydraulic testing system for the rotary platform on launchpad and the intelligent analysis system for multi-frequency complex curveof test data, which has laid a solid foundation for the successful launch,”said Peng Bo, an engineer of the launch center.
One of the two small satellites launched on the same rocket belongs toBeijing Normal University with the name of BNU-1, and the other belongs toa Shanghai-based private space technology company. Both have an expectedlifespan of one year.
Thursday’s launch is the 310th mission of the Long March carrier rocketseries.
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center have made breakthroughs in many coretechnologies in recent years to satisfy various demands of space launchwith multi-model and high-density.
