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A Long March-4C rocket carrying the Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) satellite takes off from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in northwestern China on July 5, 2021. China has sent a new weather satellite into orbit scheduled from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in northwest China on Monday morning. (Photo: Xinhua)
A Long March-4C rocket carrying the Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) satellite prepares to take off from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in northwest China on July 5, 2021. China has sent a new satellite weather forecast in orbit since the launch of the Jiuquan Center satellite in northwest China on Monday morning. (Photo: Xinhua)
A Long March-4C rocket carrying the Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) satellite prepares to take off from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in northwest China on July 5, 2021. China has sent a new satellite weather forecast in orbit since the launch of the Jiuquan Center satellite in northwest China on Monday morning. (Photo: Xinhua)
A Long March-4C rocket carrying the Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) satellite prepares to take off from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in northwest China on July 5, 2021. China has sent a new satellite weather forecast in orbit since the launch of the Jiuquan Center satellite in northwest China on Monday morning. (Photo: Xinhua)
China sent a new weather satellite into orbit from the satellite launch center in Jiuquan, northwest China on Monday morning.
The satellite, Fengyun-3E (FY-3E), was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:28 a.m. (Beijing time), and it was the 377th flight mission in the Long March rocket series, according to the China National Space Administration.
Equipped with 11 remote sensing payloads, FY-3E will be the world’s first meteorological satellite to orbit early in the morning for the civil service.
It is designed with a lifespan of eight years, and will mainly obtain atmospheric temperature, humidity and other weather parameters for numerical prediction applications, thus improving China’s weather forecasting capability.
It will also monitor global snow and ice cover, sea surface temperature, natural disasters and ecology to better respond to climate change and prevent and mitigate weather disasters.
In addition, the satellite will monitor solar and space environments and their effects, as well as ionospheric data to meet the needs of space weather forecasts and support services.
The satellite and rocket were developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology. It operates under the leadership of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
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