China launches new research satellite of the Earth Bashny.Net

This morning at 10 o'clock 58 minutes on Beijing Jiuquan spaceport in North-Western China, with the help of the carrier rocket called "Changzheng-2B" produced was the successful launch of "Sitsang-11-06". The satellite was launched successfully on a pre-planned orbit.





According to the data obtained, the machine, which was produced by China Spacesat Co, that is a local company space satellites which operates under the China aerospace Corporation technology and science will be used – quote: "to carry out various scientific space experiments."

It is worth noting the fact that held the launch of the series "Changan" is the one hundred and eighty ninth in a row. In addition to the satellite, we want to highlight that in December of this year, a new Brazilian-Chinese satellite should start in China.

In December, Brazil will launch a new space satellite together with the Chinese Space Agency. It is expected that Cbers-4 will be launched in the first part of December 2014. Recall that the first satellite in the CBERS program in earth orbit was launched back in 1984. All satellites in this series, sent into space together with Brazil and China, are observation satellites.

Relative to the satellite Cbers-4, was initially planned that it will be launched in 2015 however, the launch date was rescheduled at the earliest possible time as a result of failure of the previous launch of a space satellite Cbers-3. Last December due to malfunction of the launch vehicle, the satellite is not brought into the desired orbit.

Source: globalscience.ru