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2016

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which among the following rocket is carrying the Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite
A
Long March 2C
B
Long March 2F
C
Long March 2D
D
Long March 3A
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -China was responsible for launching Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite recently. The spacecraft lifted off on May 15, 2016 atop a Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Q. The first Indian Remote Sensing satellite was launched in .

Detailed explanation-2: -China sent a new remote sensing satellite of the Yaogan-34 series into space atop a Long March-4C carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 09:38 a.m. on Tuesday.

Detailed explanation-3: -IRS-1A, the first of the series of indigenous state-of-art remote sensing satellites, was successfully launched into a polar sun-synchronous orbit on March 17, 1988 from the Soviet Cosmodrome at Baikonur.

Detailed explanation-4: -As of July 2022, China individually launched six Yaogan satellites of the Jianbing-6 class into low Earth orbit (LEO) with the first satellite launched in May 2006 and the latest in May 2016.

Detailed explanation-5: -The successful culmination of the SLV-3 project showed the way to advanced launch vehicle projects such as the Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV), Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and the Geosynchronous satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).

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