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China launched remote sensing satellite.
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On September 09, 2014 at 03:22 UTC the “Long March – 3B” (“Changzheng-3B”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the “Yaogan-21” remote sensing satellite. The rocket also orbited the “Tiantuo-2” satellite, designed and built by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). Yaogan-21 will be used for scientific experiments, natural resource survey, estimation of crop yield and disaster relief, while Tiantuo-1 was designed for smart satellite experiments.
