{"id":12912,"date":"2019-10-07T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-launches-new-gaofen-earth-imaging-satellite\/"},"modified":"2019-10-07T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T16:01:50","slug":"china-launches-new-gaofen-earth-imaging-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-launches-new-gaofen-earth-imaging-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches new Gaofen Earth-imaging satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41057\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41057\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41057\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lm4c_gf10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lm4c_gf10.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lm4c_gf10-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lm4c_gf10-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lm4c_gf10-678x406.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Long March 4C rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan space center at 1851 GMT (2:51 p.m. EDT) Friday. Credit: CCTV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Chinese Long March 4C rocket delivered into orbit Friday the Gaofen 10 Earth-imaging satellite, a likely replacement for a spacecraft lost in an August 2016 launch failure.<\/p>\n<p>The Long March 4C booster lifted off with the Gaofen 10 satellite at 1851 GMT (2:51 p.m. EDT) Friday from the Taiyuan space center in northern China\u2019s Shanxi province, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The launch occurred at 2:51 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday, marking China\u2019s 21st orbital launch attempt in 2019, and the 19th successful Chinese space launch so far the year.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media said the satellite launched by the three-stage Long March 4C rocket carries a high-resolution Earth-imaging instrument capable of resolving features on the ground smaller than a meter, or about 3.3 feet. The imaging data will be used for urban and infrastructure planning, land surveys, crop yield assessments, disaster prevention, and other applications, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaofen series of satellites are part of&nbsp;the China High-Resolution Earth Observation System, or CHEOS. Chinese officials say the CHEOS satellite fleet is a civilian-operated program comprising optical and radar imaging spacecraft, and authorities have published high-resolution imagery taken by previous Gaofen satellites.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military tracking data indicated the Long March 4C rocket placed the Gaofen 10 satellite into a nearly circular polar orbit around 380 miles (613 kilometers) above Earth, with an inclination of 97.8 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media did not identify the Gaofen 10 satellite as a replacement for a previous spacecraft named Gaofen 10, which was destroyed in a Long March 4C launch failure in August 2016.<\/p>\n<p>But the failed Aug. 31, 2016, launch lifted off from Taiyuan at roughly the same time of day as Friday\u2019s mission, suggesting it carried a payload destined for the same type of orbit. Chinese officials did not acknowledge the August 2016 launch failure for several weeks.<\/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 Long March 4C rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan space center at 1851 GMT (2:51 p.m. EDT) Friday. Credit: CCTV A Chinese Long March 4C rocket delivered into orbit Friday the Gaofen 10 Earth-imaging satellite, a likely replacement for a spacecraft lost in an August 2016 launch failure. 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