China Launches Yaogan-30 Remote Sensing Satellite
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　　A Long March-2D rocket, carrying China’s Yaogan-30 satellite, is launched at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi desert on May 15, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

　　China's Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite was sent into space on Sunday at 10:43 a.m. from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi desert.

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

　　Yaogan-30 was carried by a Long March-2D rocket, the 227th mission for the Long March rocket family.

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

　　

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