Long March 4C Launches Yaogan-34 Remote Sensing Satellite

On Friday, a Chinese Long March 4C booster launched the Yaogan-34 remote sensing satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

Data from Yaogan-34 will be used for land surveys, land ownership confirmation, urban planning, crop yield estimates, road network design, and disaster prevention and mitigation.

Yaogan-34 was developed by the Eighth Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

This launch was the 368th of the Long March series of rockets.