Chinese startup Spacety began releasing imagery captured by Hisea-1, a 185-kilogram C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, launched in December on a Long March 8 rocket. This is an image of Tennessee.

Chinese startup Spacety released the first images from Hisea-1, a C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar, launched Dec. 22 on China’s new Long March 8 medium-lift rocket.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...