China launches third "cloud third" meteorological satellite

Securities Times Network (www.stcn.com) September 23 According to Xinhua News, Beijing Time September 23 11 o'clock Xu, China in Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center with the "Long March fourth C" launch vehicle, will be the third "third" meteorological satellite launch successfully, the satellite successfully entered the scheduled track. Financial profit Po, the current savings rate increased 1000% China's third "cloud third" meteorological satellite will be with the current operation of the two "third" meteorological satellite network operation, further improve China's meteorological observation capacity and medium-term weather forecast capacity. "Third" meteorological satellite is China's second generation polar orbit meteorological satellite, All-weather, multispectral, three-dimensional, quantitative detection can be carried out on a global scale, providing meteorological parameters mainly for medium-term numerical weather forecasts, and monitoring large-scale natural disasters and ecosystems, while studying global environmental change, exploring global climate change laws and aviation, Navigation, etc. provide meteorological information. China's first and second "third" meteorological satellites for the test application of the star, respectively, in May 2008 and November 2010, the successful launch, is still in orbit stable operation. After the "third" meteorological satellite to achieve the Samsung network, its observation data update time will be reduced from the current 12 hours to 6 hours, thus greatly improve the Chinese meteorological observation capacity and medium-term weather forecast capacity. The third "third" meteorological satellite launch, is China's "Long March" series of launch vehicle 181th time space flight.