Question: Which of the following country recently launched the weather satellite Fengyun-4B?
a) South Korea
b) Japan
c) China
d) Russia
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:-
- On 03 June China successfully sent the Fengyun-4B weather satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
- With the successful launch of Fengyun-4B weather satellite by the China, it became the 16th orbital launch of the country in 2021.
- A Long March 3B lifted off from pad 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China.
- The 5,400-kilogram Fengyun-4B satellite will be used for weather analysis and forecasting, and environmental and disaster monitoring.
- Payloads include-
- A Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder.
- Radiation imager.
- Space environment packages for sensing high, medium and low energy particles.
- An imaging telescope for X-ray to extreme Ultraviolet activity monitoring, a geostationary high-speed imager and a lightning mapping imager.
- The new payloads will improve China’s high-frequency monitoring of the atmosphere and observation ability of a number of smaller-scale and shorter-duration weather phenomena.
- Fengyun-4B will operate in geostationary orbit at an altitude of 35,786 kilometers above the Earth for seven years, according to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). This is an improvement over the five-year lifetime of the Fengyun-4A, launched late 2016.
By – Rajesh Tripathi
Links:-
https://spacenews.com/china-launches-fengyun-4b-meteorological-satellite/
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/06/chang-zheng-3b-fengyun-4b/