September 10 news, according to CCTV news reports, at 12:30 today, my country successfully launched the Remote Sensing No. 40 satellite using a Long March-6 modified carrier rocket at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite successfully entered the predetermined orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success.
The remote sensing satellite No. 40 launched this time was developed by the Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Ltd. of the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is mainly used to carry out electromagnetic environment detection and related technical experiments.
The Long March 6 modified launch vehicle that performed this launch mission is a new generation solid-liquid bundled medium-sized launch vehicle developed by the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit has a carrying capacity of not less than 4 tons.
The rocket adopts a modular, combined, and serialized development approach. In the future, it can form a variety of configurations through the adjustment of the booster. can meet the diverse and intensive launch needs of future satellites.