China Launched Remote-Sensing Satellite in Connection With Brazil

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In an encore to its first manned spaceflight, China has launched a 3,400-lb. advanced multispectral remote-sensing spacecraft developed jointly with Brazil. The flight also carried a Chinese smallsat to test communications technology. The Oct. 21 mission followed launch of the Shenzhou manned flight...

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