China Receives Data from Newly Launched LT-1A Satellite

On February 9, the China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station successfully received the first data transmitted from the newly launched land observation satellite LT-1A, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

The ground stations located in Beijing's Miyun District and Kashi in western China, have tracked and received the downlink data from the satellite in two receiving tasks that lasted about three minutes and two minutes, respectively. A total of 36.66 GB data was received, recorded, transmitted and processed successfully, said AIR.

On February 8, the ground station successfully received the data stored on the satellite and completed the testing and verification of the satellite-ground link.

The satellite was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Jan. 26, 2022. The L-SAR is a satellite group composed of two satellites equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which will be used to study the geological environment, landslides, and earthquakes. 

The L-SAR 01B will be launched at the end of February. 

AIR is responsible for the radar R&D of the satellite as well as observation data reception. 

Engineers working on the data reception at Miyun station. 

Engineers working on the data reception at Kashi station.