(Yicai Global) Dec. 28 -- China shot a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia in northwest China at 11:44 p.m. yesterday.

The Yaogan-33 orbiter blasted off aboard a Long March-4C rocket and successfully assumed its planned station. The 357th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series, it also sent a micro and nano technology experiment satellite into orbit.

The two will conduct scientific experiments, survey land resources, estimate crop yields and prevent and mitigate disasters.

Editor: Ben Armour