Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, northwest China - Jan 26, 2022 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Long March-4C rocket blasting into space

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, northwest China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
2. Various of engineers working in office
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhai Wenjiang, head, ground station, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center:
"We handled space station missions and satellite launch missions simultaneously last year. Faced with a multitude of launch missions and higher requirements, we spared no efforts to tackle key problems, carried out research and development for information technologies. We improved the equipment automation, optimized personnel allocation and the test and launch mode. We have developed a workflow suitable for our launch center."
4. Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
5. Various of engineers working in office
6. Various of engineers, visitors at space technology exhibition
7. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Yang Shunong, director, UAV Technology Joint Laboratory, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (ending with shot 9):
"All research topics in our lab are aimed at the actual needs of space launch, search and rescue. We focus on solving practical problems and prepare for missions in the future."
8. Various of space technologies on display
9. Various of engineers working in office

FILE: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, northwest China – Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
10. Aircraft flying in space
11. Various of engineers working
12. Various of rocket part being sent to launch center

China launched a Long March-4C rocket to place a new satellite in space on Wednesday.

The rocket blasted off at 07:44 (Beijing Time) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and soon sent the L-SAR 01A satellite into preset orbit.

The satellite, equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), will be used to monitor the geological environment, landslides and earthquakes.

China's L-SAR 01 is a satellite group composed of two satellites (L-SAR 01A and L-SAR 01B), which are designed to be put in an orbit at an altitude of 600 km, according to the China National Space Administration. The L-SAR 01B is scheduled to be launched at the end of February.

The launch center applied innovative operation mode in the launch mission, which has optimized the work process of the facility.

Zhai Wenjiang, head of the ground station of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, said the launch center has upgraded the information technologies in the past year.

"We handled space station missions and satellite launch missions simultaneously last year. Faced with a multitude of launch missions and higher requirements, we spared no efforts to tackle key problems, carried out research and development for information technologies. We improved the equipment automation, optimized personnel allocation and the test and launch mode. We have developed a workflow suitable for our launch center," he said.

With more than a dozen innovative teams and joint labs, the center has made hundreds of research and innovation achievements over the past few years.

"All the research topics in our lab are aimed at the actual needs of space launch, search and rescue. We focus on solving practical problems, and prepare for missions in the future," said Yang Shunong, director of the UAV Technology Joint Laboratory of the launch center.