On August 9, 2016 at 22:55 UTC (on August 10 at 06:55 Beijing time) the “Long March – 4C” (“Changzheng-4C”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the “Gaofen-3” radar remote sensing satellite to survey the oceans, crops and resources, and natural disasters. Made by the China Academy of Space Technology, Gaofen 3 is the sixth satellite to launch in the Gaofen series. It is also the first civilian Earth observation satellite with radar imaging.