Saturday, April 14, 2007

China's turn

China launches navigation satellite (AP)

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the carrier rocket Long March 3-A blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday, April 14,2007. China successfully launched a navigation satellite aboard Long March 3-A early Saturday, part of the country's 'Compass' navigational system, which is expected to provide services such as positioning in transportation, meteorology, petroleum prospecting, forest fire monitoring, disaster forecast, telecommunications and public security, to customers all over China and neighboring countries by 2008. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang)AP - A Chinese rocket placed a navigation satellite in orbit Saturday as part of an effort to build a global positioning system, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

*** Anyway, they invented rocketry.


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