04 April 2018
On 4 April, China received the first package of data from the three high-resolution Gaofen-1 satellites launched on 31 March, according to the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The package of data with a total size of 166.31 gigabytes was received by the remote sensing satellite ground station in Miyun on the outskirts of Beijing. Ground stations in south China's Sanya and northwest China's Kashgar all received real time image data from the satellites.
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