China Launches Ziyuan 3

Development of new Chinese Earth-observation satellites is in the planning stage, national space contractor CASC says, announcing the launch of the latest such spacecraft. A Long March 4B rocket lofted the new satellite, Ziyuan 3, to a 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit inclined at 97.5 deg. at 03:17 GMT...

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