Last Updated: 2015-11-27 09:16 | Xinhua
A Long March-4C rocket carrying the Yaogan-29 remote sensing satellite with resolution of possibly 0.8 meters or better blasts off at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Taiyuan, capital of north China’s Shanxi Province, on Nov. 27, 2015. The satellite will be used for experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster relief. (Xinhua/Yan Yan)
China’s Yaogan-29 remote sensing satellite was launched on Thursday at 5:24 a.m. from Taiyuan launch site in Shanxi Province, north China.
The satellite will be used for experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster relief.
Yaogan-29 was carried by a Long March-4C rocket, the 219th mission for the Long March rocket family.
China launched the first “Yaogan” series satellite, Yaogan-1, in 2006.