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2nd LD-Writethru-China Focus: China launches new meteorological satellite Xinhua 03 Jun 2021, 17:55 GMT+10 XICHANG, June 3 (Xinhua) China sent a new meteorological satellite into planned orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province on Thursday morning. The satellite, Fengyun-4B (FY-4B), was launched by a Long March-3B rocket at 12:17 a.m. (Beijing Time). It was the 372nd flight mission of the Long March rocket series, said the launch center. As the first of China s new-generation meteorological satellites in geostationary orbit, the FY-4B will be used in the fields of weather analysis and forecasting, and environmental and disaster monitoring.

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