China successfully launched an optical satellite into orbit Gaofen-11

The Gaofen-11 remote sensing optical satellite for agricultural projects has successfully launched China into Earth orbit. This was announced on September 7 by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on its website. According to these data, the satellite was launched into orbit by means of a CZ-4B launch vehicle from the Taiyuan Cosmodrome, located in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, at 13:57 local time (08:57 Moscow time). It is also known that the satellite Gaofen-11 was created by order of the Ministry of Agriculture and the village of China. It is the second aircraft of a group of satellites designed, except in the agricultural sphere, for the needs of urban planning, paving roads and conducting operations to minimize and eliminate the consequences of natural disasters. Data from these spacecraft will be available to member countries of the One Belt One Way program. According to the news agency, on September 6, a successful landing on a given site was made by a Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft.