A Long March 6 carrier rocket (CZ-6) taking the Sustainable Development Goals Satellite 1 blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 10:19 am on November 5, 2021. The satellite entered the scheduled orbit, and the solar panel was unfolded, the launch mission was a complete success.

　　It's the very first satellite on Earth to help realize the 17 goals in the "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" set by the UN in 2015 to stimulate actions in solving social, economic and environmental problems for humanity and the planet.

　　Innovation Academy for Microsatellite of CAS is responsible for the overall research and development of the SDGSAT-1, with the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of CAS, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of CAS, Aerospace Information Research Institute of CAS and National Space Science Center of CAS as the main participating units.

　　As part of the Big Earth Data Science Engineering Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the satellite is equipped with thermal infrared, glimmer and multispectral imagers to observe environmental changes on Earth linked to the coastal ecosystem and human activities like urbanization, habitation and energy consumption.Guo Huadong, chief scientist of SDGSAT-1 and director of International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) said the satellite is part of the big plan for achieving the SDGs by all countries.

　　This mission is the 39th satellite launch of Innovation Academy for Microsatellite of CAS. Up to now, IAMCAS has launched 75 satellites into the space successfully, including the new-generation Beidou navigation satellites, the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), the Quantum Experiment satellite at Space Scale (QUESS), the companion microsatellite for Shenzhou spacecraft. IAMCAS has become a strong driving force in Chinese scientific satellite development, covering communications, navigation, remote sensing, and science, micro-nano and other fields.