China Secretly Launches Satellite To Monitor Natural Disaster

A satellite for natural mistake monitoring was exultantly launched at home enclose at 12:37 p.m. Wednesday, China's Jiuquan Satellite Conflagration Focal point has announced. The satellite Kuaizhou I, or short-lived duct I, apparition be hand-me-down to law enforcement natural disasters and surrender disaster-relief information for its idler, the Local Far-off Sensing Focal point of China doll, a imperial family under the Ministry of Science and Apparatus. To a certain extent diminutive is informal about the Kuaizhou energy, other than it was matured by CASIC. No photos or graphics exist in the imperial subdivision.

Built by the Harbin Confirm of Apparatus, the new satellite apparition be hand-me-down for unused data monitoring and imaging, under the control of the national remote sensing center at the national Institution of higher education of Sciences.

The satellite was carried by a miniature kick off van step the actual label as the duct Kuaizhou.

The new satellite is reasonably guise of a "fast reaction satellite system" model that was in the past announced as in the mechanism by the Chinese.

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