China on Thursday successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellites were launched as the second batch of the Yaogan-35 family at 10:22am CST / 7:52am IST by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully.
The satellites will be mainly used to conduct science experiments, land resource surveys, yield estimation of…