https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0616/c90000-20328104.html

China launched an electromagnetic monitoring satellite on Saturday, which is expected to enhance the country’s “space-air-ground” integrated monitoring capabilities for major natural disasters. It will carry out quasi-real-time monitoring of global electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, the ionosphere and the neutral atmosphere, detecting electromagnetic anomalies caused by geological and human activities, as well as monitoring thunderstorm and lightning activity. Its high-energy particle detector was developed by Italy. In Chinese, it is named after the ancient Chinese inventor Zhang Heng, who created the world’s first seismoscope over 1,800 years ago. The Italian team named the project Limadou, the pinyin transliteration of the Chinese name for the 16th-century Italian priest Matteo Ricci, in honor of his pivotal contributions to cultural exchanges between the East and the West. Both Marco Polo and Matteo Ricci served as bridges between Italian and Chinese cultures.