China Launches Upgraded Rocket
<i> Associated Press</i>
BEIJING — China on Monday launched a new rocket with the ability to carry an eight-ton satellite into low-level Earth orbit, the official New China News Agency reported.
The improved Long March 2 rocket, with four boosters, carried a dummy satellite and a small, experimental Pakistani satellite when it blasted off from the Xichang launch site in southwest China’s Sichuan province.
China entered the international satellite launching business in April when it sent aloft a U.S.-made telecommunications satellite aboard a Long March 3 rocket.
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