Fengyun-3D, at 2:35 a.m. BJT Wednesday from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

China launches new weather satellite Fengyun-3D to help with disaster relief. China launched a new meteorological satellite, Fengyun-3D, at 2:35 a.m. Beijing Time Wednesday from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province. Fengyun-3D is one of China’s second generation of Polar-Orbiting Meteorological Satellites, which can provide global three dimensional all-weather and multi-spectral remote sensing images. The satellite will form a network with the Fengyun-3C satellite, which was launched into space in September 2013, to improve the accuracy of atmospheric sounding and enhance the monitoring of greenhouse gases. The network will help China’s disaster relief work.