China launched Typhoon detecting missile

After the destruction done by typhoon Mujigae in the southern Guangdong province of China, the country has launched its first typhoon detecting rocket from Hainan.

The typhoon detecting missile is the joint efforts of the Shanghai Typhoon Institute of China Meteorological Administration and China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp with the support of Hainan Meteorological Service and took three years in completion of the project.

• After the 6 minutes of launch it has dropped several radiosondes into the centre of Typhoon Mujigae and the data retrieved was accurate with high scientific research value.
• Typhoon Mujigae had made the land fall in the coastal city of Zhanjiang with winds of up to 50 meters per second by which 7 people were killed and 223 were injured.