China launches satellite for scientific experiments

BEIJING: China today successfully launched a remote sensing satellite from the Jiuquan satellite launch centre in northwest China's Gansu Province.

Yaogan-24 satellite will mainly be used for scientific experiments, natural resource surveys, crop-yield estimates and disaster relief, state-run news agency reported.

The Yaogan-24 was carried by a Long March-2D rocket, the 199th mission for the Long March rocket family. China launched the first satellite of the "Yaogan" series, Yaogan-1, in 2006.