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China launches communications satellite "SinoSat-3"
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The carrier rocket Long March 3-A blasts
off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan
Province, June 1, 2007. China on early Friday morning launched
"SinoSat-3", a communications satellite for radio and television
broadcasting, aboard a Long March-3A carrier rocket, marking the 100th
flight of its Long March series.(Xinhua Photo/Li Gang)
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XICHANG, Sichuan Province, June 1 (Xinhua) -- China on early Friday morning
launched "SinoSat-3", a communications satellite for radio and television
broadcasting, aboard a Long March-3A carrier rocket, marking the 100th flight of
its Long March series.
The satellite, launched from the Xichang Satellite
Launch Center in the southwest Sichuan province at 0:08 a.m. (Beijing Time),
separated from the rocket about 24 minutes after lift-off, before entering the
geosynchronous orbit, data from the northwest Xi'an Satellite Control center
show.
SinoSat-3 and its carrier rocket, were mainly
developed and manufactured by the China Academy of Space Technology and the
China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, both under the China Aerospace
Science and Technology Corporation.
Its predecessor SinoSat-2, China's first
direct-to-home satellite, was launched on Oct. 29 last year. It was revealed a
month later that it failed to deploy its solar panels and communication antennae
and was deemed inoperable, the Sino Satellite Communications Co. Ltd. (SinoSat),
a Chinese satellite operator and the user of the SinoSat series, has said.
A substitute satellite for the failed SinoSat-2 will
take at least three years to develop, with more technical upgrades, according to
a SinoSat spokesman last November.
It is not clear whether SinoSat-3 will replace part
of the service of SinoSat-2.
China has 12.6 million digital TV subscribers and 400
million television sets, suggesting a huge potential market for satellite TV.
SinoSat-1, launched in July 1998, was bought from
France mainly to undertake China's radio and TV broadcast and communications
services in the Asia-Pacific Region.
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