At 16:53 Beijing time on May 31, China successfully put the Gaofen 9-02 and Hede 4 satellites into their scheduled orbits using the Long March 2 carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.
Gaofen 9-02 is an optical remote sensing satellite with ground image resolution up to sub-meter level, mainly used for land census, urban planning, land titling, road network design, crop valuation and disaster prevention and mitigation.
The Hede 4 satellite, developed by Head Aerospace, enables global ship status acquisition, global flight status acquisition and global Internet of Things information acquisition in orbit.
This mission was the 333rd flight of the Long March series of launch vehicles.
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