A Long March 4B Y53 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite for ocean-salinity detection blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province on Nov 14, 2024. [Photo/CCTV]
TAIYUAN -- China sent a new satellite for ocean-salinity detection into space on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
The satellite was launched at 6:42 am (Beijing Time) using a Long March-4B Y53 carrier rocket, and has successfully entered its preset orbit.
The satellite will fill the gap of China's high-precision global ocean-salinity detection capabilities, improve data collection on ocean dynamics and environmental factors, and boost the accuracy of China's marine forecasting products, said the CNSA.
It will also support marine environmental forecasting, ecological forecasting, water-cycle monitoring, short-term climate prediction, and global climate change research, providing critical data for applications in agriculture, disaster mitigation, meteorology and other related industries, according to the CNSA.
It was the 545th flight mission of the Long March series rockets.
At 10:12 on April 3rd, China used the Long March 6 carrier rocket at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center to successfully launch the Tianping-3A Star 02 into space.
According to CCTV News, at 21:46 Eastern Time on March 31, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
China on Sunday sent a new communication test satellite into orbit from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan Province.