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China launches new remote-sensing satellite
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March 5, 2010, Friday
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CHINA has successfully put into orbit another remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan IX" at 12:55 pm (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province, according to a statement from the center today.
The satellite was sent into space aboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket and would be used to conduct scientific experiment, carry out surveys on land resources, forecast grain output and help with natural disaster-reduction and prevention endeavor, it said.
Its predecessor, "Yaogan VIII," was launched from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province last December.
The satellite was sent into space aboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket and would be used to conduct scientific experiment, carry out surveys on land resources, forecast grain output and help with natural disaster-reduction and prevention endeavor, it said.
Its predecessor, "Yaogan VIII," was launched from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province last December.
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