VRSS-2 China Launches Remote Sensing Satellite for Venezuela

China launched Venezuela’s remote sensing satellite VRSS-2 into a preset orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi desert at 12:13 on Monday. The VRSS-2 was the third satellite jointly launched by China and Venezuela, and also the latter’s second remote sensing satellite. It will be primarily used by Venezuela for land resources survey, environmental protection, disaster monitoring and management, crop yield estimation and city planning. The satellite was launched by a Chinese Long March-2D carrier rocket designed by Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology. This was the 252nd flight mission for the Long March rocket family. The successful launch is attributable to full preparation of high standard. “The two hours before the launch were the busiest and most demanding period for launchpad support workers. There were over 100 of them working on dozens of posts. They needed to finish hundreds of tasks within limited time, such as status examin