Long March-2C lofts environment-monitoring satellite into orbit (1/2)

The Long March-2C launch vehicle carrying Huanjing-1C, an environment-monitoring satellite, lifts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center's LC9 Launch Platform in Shanxi Province, November 19, 2012. The Huanjing-1C satellite and the other two satellites Huanjing-1A and Huanjing-1B, which were sent to the outer space in 2008, will be used to monitor the environment and help reduce natural disasters. Other satellites launched together with Huanjing-1C were the XY Xinyan-1 and the FN-1 Fengniao-1A/B pair. Also known by NewTech-1 (New Technology Demonstration Satellite), the XY-1 is the first new space technology in-orbit demonstration project developed by enterprises in China and used for in-orbit test demonstration of many new technologies. The FN-1 Fengniao-1A/B (HummerSat-1) satellites represent the first realization of a new generic micro/minisatellite development of DFHSat (DFH Satellite Co. Ltd.). [Photo: CNS/Sun Zifa]