China launches new resource satellite

Taiyuan (XNA) Dec 27, 2021

China sent a new resource satellite into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday. The resource satellite, ZY-1 02E, was launched at 11:11 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-4C carrier rocket. The satellite, developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, will work in the solar synchronous orbit. It carries a near-infrared