11 June 2020
A new Fengyun meteorological weather satellite is currently undergoing final tests at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology and is expected to come out of the factory by the end of 2020. The new satellite will operate from a polar morning-evening orbit, a new feat, not done before. This will enable Chine to update its global polar-orbiting meteorological satellite data in four hours, improving its numerical weather forecast capacities. Four more Fengyun 3 satellites are under development.
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