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China launches first satellite after satellite-killing missile test
Jul 16, 2007 08:07:50
February 3, 2007
China has launched an experimental navigation satellite into space, state press reported, the nation's first space launch since it tested a satellite-killing missile last month.
The Beidou (Big Dipper) satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launching Centre in southwest China's Sichuan province aboard a Long March 3-A rocket, Xinhua news agency said.
The satellite separated from the rocket 24 minutes into the flight and has successfully entered its planned orbit, the report said.
The launch was the first since China shocked the world on January 11 with a successful missile test that destroyed an orbiting Chinese weather satellite.
The satellite-killing missile raised global concerns of a renewed arms race to weaponise outer space.
The test made China only the third country in the world -- after the United States and the former Soviet Union -- to down an object in space.
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