On September 14, 2015, at 04:42 UTC the “Long March – 2D” (“Changzheng-2D”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited the “Gaofen-9” remote sensing satellite. Xinhua said the “Gaofen-9” satellite “will be used in land survey, urban planning, road network design, agriculture, and disaster relief.”