The constellation will help the nation’s early warning and prediction of marine disasters.
China on Wednesday successfully despatched a new ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit as a part of its effort to construct an all-weather and round the clock dynamic ocean surroundings monitoring system which would supply early warning on marine disasters.
The satellite was launched by a Long March-4B rocket carrying the Haiyang-2D (HY-2D) satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, the state media reported.
The HY-2D will kind a constellation with the HY-2B and HY-2C satellites to construct an all-weather and round the clock dynamic ocean surroundings monitoring system of excessive frequency and medium and enormous scale, Xinhua reported.
The constellation will help the nation’s early warning and prediction of marine disasters, sustainable growth and utilisation of ocean assets, efficient response to international local weather change in addition to ocean analysis.
The HY-2D was developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, and the provider rocket by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.
Wednesday’s launch was the 370th by the Long March rocket sequence, the report stated.
China’s house programme made important developments final week when it landed a spacecraft on Mars, changing into the second nation after the United States to have a rover on the purple planet.
