China has launched an artificial Earth satellite to monitor the atmosphere

    China has launched the Tianping-3 artificial Earth satellite (Libra-3) to explore the upper atmosphere.

    This is what the Report reports with reference to TASS.

    The satellite, the report says, was launched from the Taiyuan cosmodrome in Shanxi Province (Northern China) at 08:10 Beijing time (04:10 Baku time) using the Changzheng-6 launch vehicle (Long March-6, "Great March-6") and "successfully launched the specified orbit."

    Tianping-3, named after the Libra constellation, is mainly used for calibration of ground-based radar equipment, as well as for monitoring the low-orbit space environment and correcting the orbit prediction model.