China Launches Mapping Satellite
SOURCE: China Space News
UPDATED: 2015-10-28
JIUQUAN, Gansu, Oct. 26 (China Space News) -- China successfully sent the Tianhui-1C mapping satellite into orbit at 3:10 p.m. Monday from Jiuquan satellite launch center in the northwestern province of Gansu.
The satellite was aboard a Long March 2D carrier rocket, the 215th launch of the Long March series carrier rockets, according China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC), the producer of the rocket.
Designed by a subsidiary of the CASC, Tianhui-1C is the third satellite in the Tianhui-1 series and will be used for scientific experiments, land resource surveys, mapping, crop yield estimation and disaster relief.