JIUQUAN - China successfully sent a new group of remote-sensing satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Saturday.
The four satellites of PIESAT-2 were launched at 11:39 am (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2C carrier rocket and entered its planned orbit successfully.
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They will mainly provide commercial remote-sensing data services. The launch was the 544th flight mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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In March 2023, China launched PIESAT-1 or Hongtu-1, a wheel-like formation of four satellites, the first formation of its kind in the world.
They later successfully obtained high-precision terrain mapping data products using the multi-baseline interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology, marking China's first in-orbit application of such a mapping system.
