April 22 (China Military News cited from Xinhua and edited by Johnathan Weng) — China on Wednesday launched a remote-sensing satellite, “Yaogan VI,” from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.

file photo: the launch of Yaogan-V

The satellite was successfully launched into the space by a Long March 2C carrier rocket at 10:55 a.m.. This flight was the 117th of the Long March series rockets.

China announces that this satellite will be mainly used for land resources survey, environmental surveillance and protection, urban planning and so on. But so-called  “Yaogan VI” is a imaging military reconnaisance satellite. Now the successful launch of “Yaogan-VI” has presumed that China has established a new real-time data transmission spy-star constellation, which consists of 3 SAR satellite (Yaogan-I Yaogan-III and Yaogan-V) and 3 imaging satellites (Yaogan-II, Yoagan-IV and Yaogan VI), replacing previous returnable satellites.

In Yaogan-VI satellite’s designation name is probably JianBing-10.