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Fourth Satellite Launching Center May Be Built In Hainan
China is likely to built a new satellite launching center, the fourth of its kind in the country, in its southernmost island province of Hainan, a local newspaper reported Thursday. Sources from deputies, from the island province, to the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) here confirmed the report, said the Legal Evening Daily, without elaborating the detail. According to a report delivered at this year's session of Hainan Provincial People's Congress held in January, the feasibility research on the center will start within the year so as to materialize the long-awaited plan as soon as possible. Currently, China has three satellite launching centers located, respectively, in Xichang in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jiuquan in northwest China's Gansu Province and Taiyuan in north China's Shanxi Province. Source: Xinhua News Agency Related Links SinoDaily Search SinoDaily Subscribe To SinoDaily Express 
New Technologies Critical To Next Shenzhou Mission
Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2005Huang Chunping, chief commander of rocket system of China's Manned Space Program confirmed that China would launch the Shenzhou VI this autumn. There would be two astronauts on the Shenzhou VI and the space flight would last for over five days. |
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