30 April 2022
On 30 April at 11:30 BJT, China successfully sent five Jilin 1 high-resolution satellites into planned orbit from a platform in the East China Sea. The satellites were launched by a CZ-11 rocket and have successfully entered their planned orbit. They will provide commercial remote sensing data services for sectors including land resource survey, urban planning and disaster monitoring. The Jilin 1 constellation is expected to have 138 satellites by 2025 and become the largest commercial observation constellation in China.
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