China launches Yaogan-29 remote sensing satellite

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China's Yaogan-29 remote sensing satellite was launched on Thursday at 5:24 a.m. from Taiyuan launch site in north China's Shanxi Province.

File photo shows the launch of the Yaogan-28 remote sensing satellite. [Photo: Xinhua]

File photo shows the launch of the Yaogan-28 remote sensing satellite. [Photo: Xinhua]

The satellite will be used for experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster relief.

Yaogan-29 was carried by a Long March-4C rocket, the 219th mission for the Long March rocket family.

China launched the first "Yaogan" series satellite, Yaogan-1, in 2006.

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