World IN BRIEF : CHINA : Beijing to Launch Satellite for Arabs
From Times staff and Wire reports
China has won a bidding competition to launch a communications satellite for a consortium of eight Arab nations, the China News Service reported. It said the satellite will be launched aboard a Chinese rocket at the end of 1991 for the Arabian Satellite Communications Organization. Its members include Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, Iraq, Syria and Jordan. China’s first commercial launch is planned for next month.
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