China has successfully put into orbit another remote-sensing satellite, Yaogan IX at 12:55 p.m.(Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province, according to a statement from the center Friday.

The satellite was sent into space aboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket and would be used to conduct scientific experiment, carry out surveys on land resources, forecast grain output and help with natural disaster-reduction and prevention endeavor, it said.

Its predecessor, Yaogan VIII, was launched from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province last December.

(Xinhua News Agency March 5, 2010)