China News Service, Beijing, April 7 (Ma Shuaisha Zhang Wei) The reporter learned from the China National Space Administration that at 7:47 Beijing time on April 7, China successfully launched the Long March 4C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. High score three 03 stars.
After the satellite is in orbit, it will operate in a network with the in-orbit Gaofen-3 (also known as Gaofen-3 01) and Gaofen-3 02, forming a constellation of marine and land radar satellites.
At 7:47 on April 7, Beijing time, China successfully launched the Gaofen-3-03 satellite with the Long March 4C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite successfully entered the predetermined orbit and the launch mission was a complete success.
Photo by Wang Jiangbo
The Gaofen-3 03 satellite is a business satellite in the "National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium and Long-term Development Plan (2015-2025)". The technical status of the satellite is the same as that of the Gaofen-3 02 satellite. The main payload is C-band synthetic aperture. radar.
The satellite fully inherits the mature technical scheme of Gaofen-3, achieves 1-meter resolution and 1-day revisit, and will improve the sea and land observation capabilities of China's radar satellites, which can meet the needs of marine rights maintenance, marine disaster prevention and mitigation, marine dynamic environment monitoring, marine science Research and application requirements in the fields of disaster reduction, land, environmental protection, water conservancy, agriculture and meteorology.
At 7:47 on April 7, Beijing time, China successfully launched the Gaofen-3-03 satellite with the Long March 4C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite successfully entered the predetermined orbit and the launch mission was a complete success.
Photo by Wang Jiangbo
The Gaofen-3 satellite was successfully launched on August 10, 2016. It is China's first large-scale low-orbit remote sensing satellite with a long-life design.
On November 23, 2021, the Gaofen-3 02 satellite was successfully launched, and the two-satellite operation with the Gaofen-3 satellite was realized.
The Long March 4C carrier rocket is a normal temperature liquid three-stage carrier rocket developed by the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It has the ability to launch satellites of various types and different orbits. The sun-synchronous circular orbit has a carrying capacity of up to 3 tons.
The mission is the 414th launch of the Long March series of launch vehicles.
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