CHINANA LAUNCHED NEW COMMUNICATION SATELLITE

China launched

New communication satellite

    China successfully launched a new communication satellite early Tuesday,21^st June,2011, officials said. The Zhongxing-10 was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province at 0.13 a.m., Xinhua reported. It was carried by the Long March-3B carrier rocket. The control centre said the satellite successfully separated from the carrier rocket and entered Earth's orbit as scheduled, 26 minutes after the launch. The Zhongxing-10 was designed and manufactured by the China Academy of Space Technology. It will provide communication, broadcasting and data transmission services for users in China and the Asia-Pacific region.

  

                                                                                                         Prof. John Kurakar