China launches SDGSAT-1 science satellite to facilitate global sustainable development

China launched the SDGSAT-1 subject outer into abstraction from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center successful bluish China connected November 5, 2021. The outer was launched aboard the Long March-6 (CZ-6) bearer rocket and entered its planned orbit.

SDGSAT-1 is the archetypal outer customized for the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a blueprint adopted by each UN subordinate states successful 2015 with 17 SDGs and 169 targets arsenic the halfway for bid and prosperity.

As the archetypal Earth subject outer launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), it is developed by the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS).

Three payloads of thermal infrared, low-light level, and multi-spectral imager volition let the satellite to get high-quality information arsenic good arsenic full-time monitoring capabilities to facilitate the valuation of SDG indicators representing the enactment betwixt quality activities and nature.

"SDGSAT-1 is expected to further amended the sum of monitoring indicators by providing much timely information to capable and reconstruct the gaps successful clip series, based connected which, monitoring results of SDG indicators with higher spatial and temporal resolution tin beryllium obtained," said Prof. GUO Huadong, manager of CBAS, and a prof astatine the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), CAS.

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