China Launches Remote Sensing Satellite

Collectibles on Wednesday sent a remote-sensing satellite in the sphere of nominated sphere, according to the Taiyuan Satellite Establishment Development. The Yaogan XIX satellite was launched at 11:31 a.m. on the minute of a Longing Experiment 4C carrier escalate from the sack center in north China's Shanxi Subdivision, according to a press release from the Taiyuan Satellite Establishment Development. The satellite apparition be recycled to accommodate numerical experiments, hold out land surveys, get the gist crop yields and aid in preventing and tumbling whole disasters, the center believed.

As per yardstick, the Chinese media speak to to the satellite as a new remote sensing bird that apparition be recycled for numerical experiments, land examination, crop deliver discrimination, and disaster monitoring.

As was the case via olden launches of the Yaogan Weixing series, western analysts endure this class of satellites is being recycled for military purposes.

In fact, three types of satellites use the Yaogan entitle. All via a assignment for military purposes, these satellites are recycled for space-based put-on split radar observations, electro-optical observations and sea maritime surveillance.

The YG-19 satellite apparition believably be a high-res wide-angle optical observation manufacture via a sack hodgepodge of 1,040 kg. The charge apparition be devoted to the YG-8 and YG-15 satellites.

The sack apparent the 184th charge for the nation's Longing Experiment escalate ancestry.

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