Sign In
Learn bits
Science & Tech., I.R.
Mahesh

10/04/22 17:11 PM IST

China launches new satellite for Earth observation

In News 
  • China launched a new Earth observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
Features of Satellite 
  • The satellite has been named Gaofen-3 03.
  • It was from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre with the use of a Long March-4C rocket.
  • The satellite has been successfully inserted into the planned orbit.
  • This newly launched satellite will be networked with the already orbiting Gaofen-3 and Gaofen-3 02 satellites.
  • These 3 satellites will form a land-sea radar satellite constellation and will be capturing stable, reliable, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images.
Applications 
  • The images that will be captured by the satellite will help in the mitigation and prevention of marine disasters, help in the monitoring of the dynamic marine environment, environmental protection, marine research, agriculture, water conservancy, and meteorology.
  • It will also help in safeguarding the maritime rights and interests of the country.

More Related Current Affairs View All

05 Mar

First-ever comprehensive survey of India’s river dolphins

'Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the results of the first-ever comprehensive population estimation of riverine dolphins – Gangetic and Indus dolphins – done in In

Read More

05 Mar

Arresting women at night

'The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court in Deepa versus S. Vijayalakshmi and Others ruled that the legal provision in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, which

Read More

05 Mar

Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

'The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) looking to wrap up public consultations on the draft Rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 by Mar

Read More

India’s First Ai-Driven Magazine Generator

Generate Your Custom Current Affairs Magazine using our AI in just 3 steps