Haiyang-1D will form China’s first maritime civilian satellite constellation together with the Haiyang-1C satellite that launched in 2018.
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center hosted China’s 24th launch of 2018 when a Long March 2C placed the Haiyang-1C satellite into a 770 by 786-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit on 2018-09-06 at 23:15 EDT (03:15 UTC September 7).