A new optical remote-sensing satellite lifts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province yesterday. The Gaofen-11 02 satellite was launched by a Long March-4B rocket at 1:57 p.m. and is the 345th flight mission by a Long March carrier rocket. It will be mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land rights confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation. China News Service