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Today, the world's first geostationary orbiting satellite, Tianlian 2B, has been launched successfully this morning. In the future, we will monitor the fine dust and marine environment of our country and surrounding countries.

Reporter Jung Ku-hee reports.

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The rocket bursts into the sky with flames.

Our time Today, at 7:18 am, a rocket carrying our Korean satellite, Cheonan 2B, was successfully launched at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana Kulu, South America.

The satellite entered its target orbit and at 7:55 succeeded in its first contact with a contact station in Australia.

Cheonlian 2B is the world's first geostationary orbital satellite with 9 years of development and a total budget of 386.7 billion won.

At an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, the planet rotates at the same speed as the Earth, intensively monitoring the atmosphere and ocean conditions around the Korean Peninsula.

[Chief Jae-dong / Hanwooyeon Geostationary Satellite Research Group: Since the resolution is four times better than Chun 1st, it has the advantage of always being able to observe marine pollution or air pollution.]

In particular, it is possible to observe fine dust, which has not been possible until now.

Launched in 2018, Cheonlian 2A was able to monitor yellow dust particles only because of the main purpose of monitoring weather conditions such as typhoons and heavy rain.This time, it can measure even finer dust.

In the future, we will be able to see in real time how fine dust flows from overseas, such as China and North Korea.

The ocean's high temperature, green algae and red tide can also be observed from space.

The satellite will perform observation missions later this year after orbital stabilization and observation correction.