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China Launches Fengyun-3H Satellite for Climate Monitoring

9/28/2025

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China launched the Fengyun-3H meteorological satellite on September 27, 2025, at 3:28 a.m., from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The Long March 4C rocket placed Fengyun-3H in orbit, its 596th flight.
Fengyun-3H carries nine instruments for weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and atmospheric research.
It includes Greenhouse-gases Absorption Spectrometer II, the first wide swath instrument to monitor global greenhouse gases.

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China launched the Fengyun-3H meteorological satellite on September 27, 2025, at 3:28 a.m., from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
The Long March 4C rocket placed Fengyun-3H in orbit, its 596th flight.
Fengyun-3H carries nine instruments for weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and atmospheric research.
It includes Greenhouse-gases Absorption Spectrometer II, the first wide swath instrument to monitor global greenhouse gases.