China launches new remote satellite

By Necva Tastan

ISTANBUL (AA) – China on Thursday launched a new remote-sensing satellite into space.

The satellite was sent from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

The Yaogan-33 03 satellite was successfully placed into its designated orbit after being launched via a Long March-4C carrier rocket at 2.14 am (1814GMT).

It is designed for scientific experiments, land resource surveys, estimating crop yields, and disaster prevention and relief efforts.

This launch marked the 486th mission in the Long March series of carrier rockets.

The rockets are named after a pivotal trek across 9,000 kilometers (5,600 miles) in the 1930s, during the Chinese Civil War, in which tens of thousands of people died.