Survey satellite for year-end launch
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August 9, 2011, Tuesday
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CHINA will put into space a high-definition civil survey satellite, the first of its kind in the country, at the end of this year, said an official of the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation yesterday.
The satellite, ZY 3, will be launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province on a Long March 4B carrier rocket, said Song Chaozhi, deputy director of the administration.
Once launched, the satellite will operate in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 506 kilometers.
It will be capable of producing seamless imagery of the Earth's surface from 84 degrees south latitude to 84 degrees north latitude and provide images with the highest definition and accuracy in China, the statement said.
It will help map western regions where geographic information is difficult to collect and update due to technological limits, Song said.
The administration also announced that China has finished surveying and mapping for the first 1:50,000 scale map of its 2 million square kilometer western regions.
The satellite, ZY 3, will be launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province on a Long March 4B carrier rocket, said Song Chaozhi, deputy director of the administration.
Once launched, the satellite will operate in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 506 kilometers.
It will be capable of producing seamless imagery of the Earth's surface from 84 degrees south latitude to 84 degrees north latitude and provide images with the highest definition and accuracy in China, the statement said.
It will help map western regions where geographic information is difficult to collect and update due to technological limits, Song said.
The administration also announced that China has finished surveying and mapping for the first 1:50,000 scale map of its 2 million square kilometer western regions.
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