China Launches Mapping and Surveying Satellite
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China Sunday launched a satellite that will carry out land surveys and mapping for several days before returning to earth, the Xinhua news agency said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's sole commercial satellite operator launched its third satellite Tuesday in what the government said was a landmark effort to extend the country's communications reach.
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MOSCOW - Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS.
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BEIJING, Oct. 24 -- China sent a satellite rocketing toward lunar orbit Wednesday evening, the latest step in an ambitious national program to shoot more astronauts into space, build a space station and eventually land Chinese astronauts on the moon.
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China will launch its lunar orbiter Chang&#39;e 1 to explore the moon&#39;s environment and study the thickness of its soil by the end of 2007, according to a senior Chinese space expert in India.
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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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The unmanned satellite SMART-1, whose mission is to map the Moon&#39;s topography and mineralogical composition, reached its first lunar orbit after a thirteen month journey, China Radio International reported on Tuesday.
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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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China on Thursday revealed its plans for space  -- including space walking, spacecraft docking and the setting up of a space laboratory before 2010, state media reported.
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PARIS - Canada's Radarsat-2 Earth observation satellite, which has been almost a decade in design and construction, launched successfully Friday aboard a Russian Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to launch-services provider Starsem S.A. of France.
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With the third &quot;ZY-2&quot; research satellite successfully entered into orbit on Saturday morning, China has continuously accomplished its 40th satellites launching tasks since Oct.
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China is to launch 15 rockets, 17  satellites and its third manned mission in 2008, flexing its  muscle in space in a year in which it will host the summer  Olympics.
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BEIJING, Oct. 24 -- China launched a satellite rocketing toward lunar orbit Wednesday evening, the latest step in an ambitious national program to send more men into space, build a space station and eventually land Chinese astronauts on the moon.
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With the third &quot;ZY-2&quot; research satellite successfully entering into orbit on Saturday morning, China has accomplished the launch of its 40th satellite since October 1996.
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India's space agency said it successfully launched the nation's first satellite for educational services on Monday, which is expected to boost distance learning in a country with a huge rural population.
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China launched an experimental satellite into orbit Sunday, atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket; reported Xinhua, China&#39;s government-run news agency.
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China has launched its first lunar probe, a step in an ambitious plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to earth.