15 November 2017
China launched a new meteorological satellite, Fengyun-3D, on 15 November at 2:35 a.m. Beijing Time from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province. A Long March-4C rocket carried the satellite into space. The satellite has entered its orbit. Fengyun-3D is one of China's second generation of Polar-Orbiting Meteorological Satellites, which can provide global three dimensional all-weather and multi-spectral remote sensing images.
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