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Yaogan 36

China launched Long March-2D carrier rocket early on Thu morning and successfully transported Yaogan 36 remote-sensing satellite to orbit. This is the 15th launch mission Long March-2D has completed in 2022, setting a record of annual launch time for its type.

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Tianzhou 5

Tianzhou 5 (Chinese: 天舟五号) is the fifth mission of the Tianzhou-class unmanned cargo spacecraft, and the fourth resupply mission to the Tiangong Space Station. Like previous Tianzhou missions, the spacecraft was launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan, China on a Long March 7 rocket. It was successfully placed into orbit on 12 November and docked to the Tiangong space station on the same day. The whole docking process only lasted for around two hours, which is a world record.

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Yaogan-36 remote sensing satellite

China successfully launched Yaogan-36 remote sensing satellite into preset orbit via a Long March-2D rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center early Saturday morning.

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China aims to unravel the Sun’s secrets

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202210/09/WS63421d0ea310fd2b29e7b61c.html China has successfully launched a satellite for observing solar activity that will be instrumental in predicting space weather, the country’s Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced on Sunday. 

The satellite, which is called Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), was sent to space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on a Long March-2D rocket, CASC said. According to China Daily, the ASO-S is China’s first full-scale, dedicated instrument for studying the Sun.

The 859-kg probe will start operations at an altitude of 720-km to study how the solar magnetic field is linked with solar flares and coronal mass ejections – which are massive blasts of plasma. This is expected to help gather the data needed to better forecast space weather. Such information is of significant utility because various solar phenomena are capable of knocking out sensitive electronic equipment on Earth.