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Remote-sensing satellite "Yaogan V" is
launched with a Long March-4B carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite
Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, Dec. 15, 2008. The
satellite will be used for data collection and transmission involving land
resources surveys, environmental surveillance and protection, urban
planning, crop yield estimates, disaster prevention and reduction, and
space science experiments. (Xinhua Photo)
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TAIYUAN, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday launched
a remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan V," from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
in north Shanxi Province.
The satellite was launched with a Long March-4B
carrier rocket at 11:22 a.m., the center said.
The satellite will be used for data collection and
transmission involving land resources surveys, environmental surveillance and
protection, urban planning, crop yield estimates, disaster prevention and
reduction, and space science experiments.
Xu Hongliang, director of the center, said the flight
had been carried out under extreme low temperature, with the lowest reaching
minus 29 degrees celsius in the past few days.
However, its success showed that the designing of the
launcher, which was put into use in September, was up to standard and capable of
working in low temperature.
The center's staff had also drawn on successful
domestic and foreign experience of low-temperature launching and made much
effort for its success, he said.
The satellite's predecessor, "Yaogan IV," was
launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province
earlier this month. "Yaogan III" was launched from Taiyuan on Nov.12, 2007.
The "Yaogan I" and "Yaogan II" satellites were
launched in April 2006 and May 2007, respectively.
The satellite was developed by the China Aerospace
Science and Technology Corp., while the rocket was designed by the Shanghai
Academy of Space flight Technology, which is under the corporation.
The flight was the 114th of the Long March series of
carrier rockets.
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