LaunchesZi Yuan-2 02 xing
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Zi Yuan-2 02 xing
Long March 4B · Earth Science
2002Launch Complex 7, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Mission
JB-3 2 was nominally a Chinese (PRC) remote sensing satellite, although US intelligence sources indicated it had primarily an intelligence imaging mission. JB-3 2 was the name adopted by the USSPACECOM. Most news reports from China and elsewhere use different names: ZY-2B (acronym for ZiYuan-2B, translated as Resource-2B), and Zhong Guo Zi Yuan Er Hao, translated as China Resource 2. No information was available on the instruments onboard the JB-3 2, but officially it was intended 'for territorial survey, environment monitoring and protection, urban planning, crop yield assessment, disaster monitoring, and space scientific experiments'.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- CASC
- Rocket
- Long March 4B
- Orbit
- SSO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 7
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2