China launches French-built Sinosat-1 on Long March 3B
China launched a French-built telecommunications satellite Saturday aboard a Long March 3B rocket, apparently without incident. Sinosat-1, an Alcatel Spacebus 3000 platform equipped with 24 C-band channels and 14 Ku-band channels, was launched from Xichang en route to a geostationary orbit at 110.5...
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