Provider: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Pad: Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603), Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Mission Description
Gaofen 12-05 is a microwave remote sensing satellite mainly used in the fields of land census, urban planning, land rights determination, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation.