Reception, recording and transmission of data from the satellite to the station took place on November 28
SANYA /China/, December 8. /tass/. The ground station in Sanya (Hainan Province, Southern China) has successfully received data from the recently launched Gaofen-3-02 Earth remote sensing satellite. This was reported by the newspaper Hainan Ribao.
According to her, the reception, recording and transmission of data from the satellite to the station took place on November 28. After that, satellite data reception from Gaofen-3-02 was carried out at other ground stations in China - in the city of Kashgar (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China) and in the Miyun district in northeast Beijing.
The Gaofen-3-02 Earth remote Sensing satellite was launched on November 23 from Jiuquan Cosmodrome (Gansu Province) using a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) launch vehicle. According to the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the device will be used in the field of preventing marine disasters and eliminating their consequences, for monitoring and environmental protection, as well as for the needs of agriculture and meteorology.