23 August 2020
A Long March-2D carrier rocket launched a new optical remote-sensing satellite, the Gaofen 9-05, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, on 23 August 2020 at 10:27 h (Beijing Time). GF-9-05 has a resolution up to the sub-meter level. It will be mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land right confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation. It will also provide information for the Belt and Road construction. A multifunctional test satellite and another satellite named Tiantuo-5 were also launched via the rocket.
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