China to Launch 17 Satellites This Year
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China said it would launch 15 rockets, 17 satellites and its third mission with astronauts in 2008. Huang Qiang, secretary-general of the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense, made the announcement at a news conference, the Xinhua news agency said.
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Musical lunarcy China has celebrated today's Moon Festival by releasing a list of ditties to be broadcast back to Earth from its Moon-probing satellite due for launch in 2007, Reuters reports.â¦
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China, which put its first man in orbit  last year, has built a national engineering and research center  for small satellites, paving the way for large-scale  production, state media said on Wednesday.
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A recoverable science experimental satellite is launched atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province, northwest China Aug. 29, 2004.
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The Chinese government is implementing a wide series of measures to reduce the amount of debris left in orbit by Chinese rockets and satellites, and to develop a space-surveillance tool to determine what is in orbit, Chinese space-debris experts said.
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Russia launched a rocket sending three navigation satellites into orbit on Sunday, the Russian Space Forces said. Two GLONASS satellites and a new-generation GLONASS-M were brought
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China&#39;s second manned space mission would take place in September 2005, the Beijing News quoted a high-ranking space official as saying Thursday.
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China will launch a record number of spacecraft this year, state media reported Tuesday, amid a rise in tensions among world powers over the militarisation of space.
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China's military spending, a point of contention with the United States, will jump 17.8 percent this year, the spokesman for the National People's Congress said Sunday.
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China's weather satellite being maneuvered into orbit    XI'AN, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Fengyun-2D, China's new meteorological satellite launched on Friday, has successfully entered a quasi- synchronous orbit as directed by ground-control, according to the Xi'an Satellite Control Center.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Chengdu, 24 September: China's seed-breeding satellite, Shijian- 8, successfully landed in Sichuan Province, southwest China, at 10:43 a.m. Beijing time on Sunday after a 15-day flight in space.
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Fifty mini-satellites are to be sent into space in 2007 to celebrate the launch of the first ever satellite Sputnik 1.
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China, which put its first man in orbit last year, has built a national engineering and research center for small satellites, paving the way for large-scale production, state media said on Wednesday.
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15 launches planned for 2008 China will this year launch 15 rockets, deploy 17 satellites and mount its third manned space mission, the country's secretary-general of the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defence has announced.â¦
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Beijing, March 5 (Xinhua) - China will send three astronauts into space in 2008 on board Shenzhou VII, but only one of them will perform spacewalk, the Beijing Times reported on Monday.
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With the launch of the Changâe-1 satellite, China moved a step closer to fulfilling its ambitions of reaching the moon.
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China on Sunday launched a satellite that will carry out land surveying and other scientific projects for several days and return to Earth, government media reported.