China Launches First, Second Generation Weather Satellite ‘Fengyun-4’ China launched a new weather satellite, Fengyun-4 satellite, in the geostationary orbit, on December 11, 2016, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China’s Sichuan Province . Long March-3B carrier rocket took the satellite into orbit. China launched pulsar navigation satellite XPNAV-1ii. It was China’s