China issued on Monday, the third satellite in its environment Family sky, sharpening its environmental monitoring and disaster forecasting capability.
The launch marks the completion of China in 2003, creating a small environmental monitoring satellite constellation plan, launched under the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China.
Radar satellite will join two other operating optical satellites "environment I satellite, which launched in September 2008, to form a network the most extensive coverage of China's territory.
"2 +1" formula will help assess the natural disasters, emergency aid and reconstruction, as well as China's ecological changes, pollution and natural disasters, weather monitoring and forecasting to provide a scientific basis, the center said.
The satellite by a Long March II C rocket.
The rocket also carried two other satellite run the test and in-orbit testing of new aerospace equipment, materials, methods and micro-satellite platform.
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