{"id":10985,"date":"2021-09-08T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-gaofen-environmental-monitoring-satellite\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:06:07","slug":"china-launches-gaofen-environmental-monitoring-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-gaofen-environmental-monitoring-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches Gaofen environmental monitoring satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53195\" style=\"width: 1050px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53195\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm4claunch1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm4claunch1.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm4claunch1-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm4claunch1-678x400.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/lm4claunch1-768x453.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinese Long March 4C rocket lifts off with the Gaofen 5-02 remote sensing satellite. Credit: CASC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China launched an Earth observation satellite on top of a Long March 4C rocket Tuesday to monitor land surfaces, water resources, and air quality.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaofen 5-02 environmental monitoring satellite took off at 0301 GMT Tuesday (11:01 p.m. EDT Monday) from the Taiyuan launch base, a military-run spaceport located in Shanxi province in northern China.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff occurred at 11:01 a.m. Beijing time.<\/p>\n<p>The three-stage Long March 4C rocket flew south from Taiyuan to deploy the Gaofen 5-02 satellite into a 420-mile-high (680-kilometer) polar sun-synchronous orbit, according to tracking data published by the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>Gaofen 5-02 is beginning a planned eight-year mission with a multi-channel optical hyperspectral imaging instrument capable of detecting variations in land cover, such as different types of vegetation and urban growth. The hyperspectral sensor can also resolve water quality.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite\u2019s predecessor, Gaofen 5-01, also carried payloads to track air pollution and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Gaofen 5-02 is believed to host a similar instrument suite.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency said the satellite was developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., the government-run prime contractor for the Chinese space program.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese Long March 4C rocket lifts off with the Gaofen 5-02 remote sensing satellite. Credit: CASC China launched an Earth observation satellite on top of a Long March 4C rocket Tuesday to monitor land surfaces, water resources, and air quality. The Gaofen 5-02 environmental monitoring satellite took off at 0301 GMT Tuesday (11:01 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}