China'sYaogan--29  remote sensing satellite was launched on November 26 at 5:24 a.m. from Taiyuan launch site in north China's Shanxi Province.

The satellite will be used for experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster relief.

Yaogan--29  was carried by a Long March-4C rocket, the 219th mission for the Long March rocket family.

China launched the first Yaogan  series satellite, Yaogan--1 , in 2006.

(Xinhua News Agency November 27, 2015)