China launches new group of remote-sensing satellites

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-11-09 15:34
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A Long March 2C rocket carrying satellites of the PIESAT-2 constellation blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, Nov 9, 2024. [Photo by Wang Jiangbo/for chinadaily.com.cn]

JIUQUAN -- China successfully sent a new group of remote-sensing satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Saturday.

The four satellites of PIESAT-2 were launched at 11:39 am (Beijing Time) by a Long March 2C carrier rocket and entered its planned orbit successfully.

They will mainly provide commercial remote-sensing data services.

The launch was the 544th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.

In March 2023, China launched PIESAT-1 or Hongtu-1, a wheel-like formation of four satellites, the first formation of its kind in the world. They later successfully obtained high-precision terrain mapping data products using the multi-baseline interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology, marking China's first in-orbit application of such a mapping system.

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