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China launches ZY-2 resource satellite
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-11-06 13:13 China successfully put its earth resource
satellite, the third of ZY-2, into the orbit with a Chinese Long-March 4-B
rocket that blasted off at 11:10 am Saturday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch
Center in north China's Shanxi Province.
China successfully
puts a resources satellite into orbit from Taiyuan Launch Center in Shanxi
Province November 6, 2004. [Xinhua] | The rocket
and satellite separated 12 minutes after the rocket blasts off. The satellite
has entered into orbit as scheduled, according to the data from Chinese ground
controller, the Xi'an Satellite Monitor and Control Center, in northwest China,
indicating the success of the launch.
The ZY-2, China's second transmitting-type remote sensing satellite, is
mainly used for land resource surveying, environmental supervision and
protection, city planning, crop yield assessment, disaster monitoring and space
scientific experiment.
China has sent the first and second ZY-2 satellites on Sept. 1,2000 and Oct.
27 2002. They are still running in the orbit and have sent back plenty of data.
Compared with the previous two resource satellites, the third one has
improved in overall performance and technology.
The Long-March 4-B carrier rocket is an upgraded version of theLong-March
4-A. The launch is the 82nd time that Long March carriers have been used and it
is also the 40th continuous successes since China launched the first of its kind
on Oct. 1996.
A LM
carrier rocket lifts
off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province November 6, 2004, putting
a resources satellite into orbit. [Xinhua]
The LM
carrier rocket, with the payload of a resources satellite, puts the satellite
into orbit November 6, 2004.
[Xinhua] |
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