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Long March rocket launches two Chinese satellites BY SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: May 15, 2002 China launched a weather satellite and marine research craft Wednesday atop a Long March 4B rocket. Liftoff occurred at 0150 GMT (9:50 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Taiyuan launch site in northern China. The Feng Yun 1D meteorological satellite and Haiyang-1 marine surveying satellite were delivered into Sun-synchronous orbit around Earth's polar regions. Chinese news reports said the satellites would monitor river flooding and the sandstorms that regularly engulf northern China. The FY-1D is reportedly the first of five such weather satellites that China intends to launch in advance of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Haiyang-1 is the first marine surveying satellite independently developed by China, reports said.
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