China launched a satellite into planned orbit on Friday for space environment study. The satellite was carried by a Long March-4B rocket departing from Taiyuan?Satellite?Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.?
The satellite, the third of the Shiyan-6 series, was launched at 7:01 a.m. It will be used to carry out space environment survey and experiments on related technologies.
China's Long March-4B rocket blasts off with a Shiyan-6 satellite for space environment study, April 9, 2021. /CMG
China's Long March-4B rocket at the Taiyuan?Satellite?Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, April 9, 2021. /CMG
China's Long March-4B rocket blasts off with a Shiyan-6 satellite for space environment study, April 9, 2021. /CMG
China's Long March-4B rocket blasts off with a Shiyan-6 satellite for space environment study, April 9, 2021. /CMG
China's Long March-4B rocket blasts off with a Shiyan-6 satellite for space environment study, April 9, 2021. /CMG
China's Long March-4B rocket at the Taiyuan?Satellite?Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, April 9, 2021. /CMG
The first and second Shiyan-6 satellites were both launched by China's Long March-2D rocket, in?November 2018?and?July 2020?respectively, for similar objectives.
The Long March-4B carrier rocket is a three-stage carrier rocket powered with liquid fuel under normal temperature.
The rocket is capable of launching various types of satellites to different orbits, and can launch multiple satellites in single flight. It can carry a payload of up to 2.5 tonnes to a sun-synchronous circular orbit.
Friday's launch was the 365th by the Long March rocket series.
