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‘Gaofen-3 03’: China’s Earth Observation Satellite

Current Affairs (CAPF) International Affairs

11-Apr-22

China has launched a new Earth observation satellite on 7^th April 2022. This satellite will become a part of the country’s land-sea radar satellite constellation. It will capture images to help China safeguard its maritime interests.

Overview:

The satellite has been named Gaofen-3 03.
It was from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre with the use of a Long March-4C rocket.
The satellite has been successfully inserted into the planned orbit.
This newly launched satellite will be networked with the already orbiting Gaofen-3 and Gaofen-3 02 satellites.
These 3 satellites will form a land-sea radar satellite constellation and will be capturing stable, reliable, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images.

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