Chang Si B successfully launched China's first active precipitation measurement satellite "Fengyun 3G".

CTOnews.com, April 16 (Xinhua)-- the official Wechat account of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation today updated an article announcing that Changsib has successfully launched Fengyun 3G, China's first active precipitation measurement satellite.

Photo Source: China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Wechat official CTOnews.com learned from the official Wechat official account of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation that Fengyun-3G is China's first low-orbit non-solar synchronous tilt orbit meteorological satellite and the first and third active precipitation measurement satellite in the world. The satellite is equipped with active precipitation measurement radar, microwave imager, medium resolution spectral imager and global navigation satellite occultation detector per set of operational loads, which will fill the gap in domestic precipitation three-dimensional tomography data. So far, China has successfully launched "two generations four" a total of 20 Fengyun meteorological satellites.

Picture Source: official account of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Wechat

In addition, the rocket carrying out this mission is the long March 4B carrier rocket. The rocket is a normal temperature liquid three-stage carrier rocket, which has the ability to launch satellites of various types and different orbits, and can launch single or multiple satellites with one arrow. Its 700 km solar synchronous circular orbit capacity can reach 2.5 tons. The mission uses the 4-meter fairing with the largest diameter of the long March 4 series carrier rockets.