Huanjing 2A, 2B

Long March 4B launched the HJ-2A and HJ-2B environmental monitoring satellites from Taiyuan, providing 16-metre multispectral and 48-metre hyperspectral/infrared imagery for pollution, disaster and ecological monitoring.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

1 T

Flight

40th

of 58 Long March 4B flights

Date and time

27 September 2020, 03:23 UTC

Rocket

Long March 4B

Builder

CASC

Launch site

Launch Complex 9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2020-067

Launches in 2020

75th of 114

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