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The Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities signed a US$140 million deal with China Great Wall Industries Co. Ltd. to launch the Venezuelan Remote-Sensing Satellite 1 in May 2011 marking China's first export of a reconnaissance satellite. VRSS-1 was based on the design of Jianbing-6 satellites and was launched on 29 September 2012 from JSLC.
It is launched from the Jiuquan, Taiyuan, and Xichang Satellite Launch Centers, and consists of 3 stages. Long March 4C vehicles have been used to launch the Yaogan-1, Yaogan-3 synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellites and the Fengyun-3A polar orbiting meteorological satellite. On 15 December 2009, a Long March 4C was used to launch Yaogan-8. [3]
The main contractor is China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and the satellite is based on the CAST 2000 bus developed by the China Academy of Space Technology. [2] [5] One source posits that VRSS-1 is based upon the Chinese Yaogan-2 reconnaissance satellite. [6] The satellite contains two different resolution cameras.
As of March 2010, twenty launches have been made from the complex. The most recent launch from the site was from SLS-2 on 5 March 2010, when the Long March 4C made its first flight from the complex, carrying the Yaogan 9 satellite. [1] Long March 4 launches had previously only been conducted from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. [6]
China Satellite Network Group Co., Ltd. (China SatNet) [215] Communications: First 10 satellites for the "Guowang" broadband communications megaconstellation expected to eventually number about 13,000. [214] 16 December 2024 18:50 [210] Long March 2D: Y99 Taiyuan: Successful Hongtu-2 09 宏图二号09 (中原二号) Sun-synchronous
Tianyan-1 (天眼一号; Tiānyǎn yī hào), alternatively identified as Yizheng-1 (仪征一号; Yí Zhèng yī hào), is a commercial Chinese electro-optical Earth-imaging reconnaissance satellite launched in 2019. [1] Yizheng 1 reportedly has a spatial resolution of 0.9 meters. [1]
The four satellites of the Fengyun 1 (or FY-1) class were China's first meteorological satellites placed in polar, Sun-synchronous orbit. [6] In this orbit, FY-1 satellites orbited the Earth at both a low altitude (approximate 900 km above the Earth's surface), and at a high inclination between 98.8° and 99.2° traversing the North Pole every 14 minutes, giving FY-1-class satellites global ...
Since the program's start in 2013, the People's Republic of China has launched 32 Gaofen-series satellites with only one launch failure. Jilin-1 satellites described as 'Gaofen' are not part of the government's Gaofen series, rather are described as having high resolution (Chinese: 高分; pinyin: Gāofēn).