At 3:28 a.m. on September 27, China successfully launched the FENYUN-3H meteorological satellite (FY-3H) using a Long March 4C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu. As a new member of the FY polar-orbiting meteorological satellite "afternoon satellite" family, FY-3H payload configuration and performance indicators have reached international sophisticated levels. It will take over the in-orbit operations of the FY-3D, which has been in service for nearly 8 years. While ensuring the core operations of global imaging and atmospheric vertical sounding for polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, it will enhance the data acquisition capability for multiple spheres of the Earth system and further enhancing gobal service capability.
Dr. CAO Xiaozhong, Chief Commander of the FY Meteorological Satellite Project and Deputy Administrator of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), stated that in recent years, China has continuously enhanced the influence of its FY meteorological satellites, becoming a role model for serving global sustainable development. After the successful launch of FY-3H, it will continue to give play to the overall advantages of China's four near-earth orbit observation systems for FY meteorological satellites, further ramp up the capabilities for refined observation of the global atmosphere and the Earth system, and better leverage the application benefits of meteorological satellites in various fields.
