Chinese, Polish satellites launched by Long March

A Chinese Earth-observing spacecraft and a Polish astronomical satellite launched into a nearly 400-mile-high orbit Tuesday aboard a Long March 4B rocket. The 15-story Long March 4B rocket took off at 0315 GMT Tuesday (11:15 p.m. EDT Monday) from the Taiyuan space center in northern China's Shanxi province, where it was 11:15 a.m. local time. After a 13-minute ascent into orbit, the three-stage rocket deployed the Gaofen 2 spacecraft, a civilian remote sensing satellite launched to help Chinese officials respond to disasters, survey natural resources, plot urban growth and support national security applications, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 21)