13 April 2022
On 13 April, the first data package of 44 gigabytes from the Gaofen 3-03 satellite was received by the remote sensing satellite ground station in Miyun on the outskirts of Beijing and the ground station in south China's Sanya, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Gaofen 3-03 was launched on 7 April. It will be networked with the orbiting Gaofen 3 and Gaofen 3-02 satellites to form a land-sea radar satellite constellation and capture reliable, stable synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The satellites will serve the fields of marine disaster prevention and mitigation, dynamic marine environment monitoring, marine research, environmental protection, water conservancy, agriculture and meteorology.
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