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China launches CBERS-4 satellite on Long March rockets' 200th mission
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CHINA launched the CBERS-4 satellite, jointly developed with Brazil, today from the Taiyuan base by Long March-4B rocket, the 200th flight for the Long March rocket family.
The rocket blasted off at 11:26am and lifted the earth resource satellite into its scheduled orbit, according to the Taiyuan satellite launch center in north China's Shanxi province.
CBERS-4 is one of the satellites of the Chinese-Brazilian Earth Resource Satellite (CBERS) program which began in 1988. Such satellites are used in the monitoring, planning and management of land, forestry, water conservancy, environmental protection and agriculture.
Today's mission was the 200th flight for the Long March since April 24, 1970 when a Long March-1 carried China's first satellite, Dongfanghong-1, into space.
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