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China's Long-March carrier rockets have conducted 82 launches since April 24,1970, and more than 90 percent of them have been successful. So far, the 12 types of Long-March carrier rockets have been able to satisfy the needs of satellites with various orbits and spacecraft.
China's space technology also started its industrialization course. Among 40 launches in the past eight years, China has sent applications satellites used for telecommunications, meteorological research, marine inspection, navigation, earth resources and scientific experiments- all of which are self-developed.
The three launch centers, Jiuquan in northwest China's Gansu province, Taiyuan in north China's Shanxi Province and Xichang in southwestern Sichuan province, can send spacecrafts onto various orbits; the turnaround time between each launch has also been dramatically shortened in the past few years.
Last October, China became only the third nation to successfully send a man into space.
And at the beginning of 2004, China launched 10 satellites within the year, while preparing for its second manned space flight.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
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