Long March Failures Bedevil

China's struggle to establish a consistent commercial launch record was dealt another setback when a premature cutoff of a Long March 3's third-stage engine left a Hughes HS 376 satellite in a useless orbit. The ChinaSat-7, built by Hughes Space and Communications for domestic use, was launched from...

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