China launches Yaogan-28 remote sensing satellite from Taiyuan

China on Sunday launched its latest remote sensing satellite on a Long March 4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi Province in North China. The Yaogan Weixing-28 payload blasted off at 15:06 Beijing time (09:06 UTC), making it China's 14th orbital launch of the year so far. The satellite was made by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the main contractor for the Chinese space program, but little is known regarding the uses of the Yaogan Weixing series of remote sensing satellite. More

(Source: gbtimes - Nov 9)