"ScanEx" Engineering Technology Center became the first Russian company specializing in receiving and processing satellite data from Chinese meteorological "FengYun-3" orbiter series, situated on polar orbits.
Meteorological data, the collection of which is produced in 8 GHz range, is received in UniScan X-band by data receiving station from polar-orbiting Remote Sensing satellites. Currently, there are three polar-orbiting space crafts of this series: "FY-3A", "FY-3B" and "FY-3C". The first one was launched in 2008, and the last one a year ago.
Sources: http://itar-tass.com
Author: Anna Dorozhkina