December 2016

News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web

China launches next-gen weather satellite – Satellite News Digest

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B; Payload: Fengyun 4A; Date: 10 December 2016, 1611 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The Fengyun-4 satellite, the first of China’s second-generation weather satellites in geostationary orbit to have been launched, is also the country’s first quantitative remote-sensing satellite in high orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2016121200