China... Fengyun Flight (Launch)
[SatNews] Xinhua is reporting that China has launched a new meteorological satellite.
Illustration of China's Fengyun-3 satellite
The launch occurred from the
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province. The launch center said the
Fengyun-3 (
FY-3) satellite is equipped with a dozen advanced detectors and is capable of carrying out a three-dimensional, all-weather, multi-spectrum quantitative detection to acquire data from the ground surface, the ocean and space. China is scheduled to launch 12 satellites of the FY-3 series and six of the
FY-4 series by 2020.
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