A Chinese Long March 2D will launch the Gaofen-6 remote sensing satellite joining the country’s primary civilian Earth Observation infrastructure comprising a variety of differently-instrumented satellites operating from different orbits to capture a comprehensive set of land, ocean and atmospheric parameters. Gaofen-6 carries a package of three cameras, one for black-and-white imaging at a two-meter ground resolution, one for color imaging at eight-meter resolution and one for wide-angle color imaging at a 16-meter GSD. It is intended as a replacement for the first Gaofen satellite launched in 2013. Luojia-1 is a 6U CubeSat from Wuhan University to act as a prototype for a potential future CubeSat imaging constellation.

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