Posted: Thu, May 2 7:33 AM ET (1133 GMT)
A Long March rocket launched a Chinese communications satellite early Thursday. The Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 12:06 pm EDT Wednesday (1606 GMT Wednesday, 12:06 am Beijing time Thursday) carrying the Chinasat-11 satellite. The satellite, weighing about 5,000 kilograms at launch, will provide television and other communications services using a payload of Ku- and C-band at 50 degrees east longitude in GEO.

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Posted: Sun, Apr 28 9:41 AM ET (1341 GMT)
A Chinese Long March rocket launched the first in a new series of earth observation satellites on Friday. The Long March 2D rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 12:13 am EDT (0413 GMT, 12:13 pm Beijing time) Friday and placed the Gaofen 1 spacecraft and three other satellites into sun-synchronous orbits. Gaofen 1 is the first of a planned constellation of up to six spacecraft designed to provide high-resolution images for land resources, disaster management, and other applications. The rocket's other three payloads were nanosatellites from Arngentina, Ecuador, and Turkey

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