On Saturday, China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying a swarm of remote sensing satellites.
According to the article, the satellites were launched as the fourth batch of the Yaogan-35 family of satellites at 1:37 a.m. (Beijing time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, southwest China, and entered the targeted orbit. The New China News Agency (NCNA) (Xinhua).
This is the 433rd flight of the Long March series of carrier rockets, and the satellites will be utilised mostly for scientific studies, land resource assessments, agricultural volume estimation, and disaster prevention and mitigation.
On the tenth of this month, China launched 16 satellites into space from the Taiwan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province, north China.
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