China Launches Yaogan-30 Remote Sensing Satellite

China’s Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite was sent into space on Sunday at 10:43 a.m. from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China’s Gobi desert. The satellite will be used for experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster information collection. Yaogan-30 was carried by a Long March-2D rocket, the 227th mission for the Long March rocket family.