China to built Synthetic Aperture Radar Constellation. It will have radar, optic and inferred detection.
JIUQUAN, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday sent a new satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province.
The Jilin-1 Gaofen 02F satellite was launched by a Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket at 2:19 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit.
It was the 12th flight mission of the Kuaizhou-1A series rockets, according to the launch center.
China's 40th orbital launch of 2021 and a new national record for a calendar year!!!!
In a July 2021 incident, USA 271, a space surveillance satellite by the Air Force and Orbital Sciences, approaches Chinese satellite SJ-20, the PRC’s heaviest and one of its most advanced satellites. The US satellite, part of the (GSAPP), shadows the Chinese bird in parallel. But then the Chinese clearly detect the US satellite and rapidly move theirs away.