Source: Xinhua | 2016-05-15 11:20:06 | Editor: huaxia  

JIUQUAN, May 15, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A Long March 2-D rocket carrying the Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite blasts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 15, 2016. China's Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite was sent into space on Sunday at 10:43 a.m. from Jiuquan in northwestern China's gobi desert.The satellite will be used for experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster relief. (Xinhua/Wang Jiangbo)

JIUQUAN, Gansu, May 15 (Xinhua) -- 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 relief.

Yaogan-30 was carried by a Long March-2D rocket, the 227th mission for the Long March rocket family.

China launched the first "Yaogan" series satellite, Yaogan-1, in 2006.