11 February 2022
On 26 January, the CZ-4C launched the L-SAR 01A satellite into space. The satellite, equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), can monitor the geological environment, landslides, and earthquakes. The radar is now capable of taking quality pictures from space, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the organisation that designed the radar and received observing data. The complementary 2^nd satellite, L-SAR 01B, will be launched at the end of February.
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