China launches satellite "SinoSat-3"

时间：2007-06-02 02:14:47

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China launches "SinoSat-3", a communications satellite for radio and television broadcasting, on early Friday morning, June 1, 2007.
 
XICHANG, Sichuan Province, June 1 - 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 Aerospace1 Science and Technology Corporation.

 

Its predecessor2 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 deploy3 its solar panels and communication antennae4 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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1 aerospace CK2yf     
adj.航空的，宇宙航行的
参考例句：
  • The world's entire aerospace industry is feeling the chill winds of recession.全世界的航空航天工业都感受到了经济衰退的寒意。
  • Edward Murphy was an aerospace engineer for the US Army.爱德华·墨菲是一名美军的航宇工程师。
2 predecessor qP9x0     
n.前辈，前任
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  • It will share the fate of its predecessor.它将遭受与前者同样的命运。
  • The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。
3 deploy Yw8x7     
v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开
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  • The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
  • The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。
4 antennae lMdyk     
n.天线；触角
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  • Sometimes a creature uses a pair of antennae to swim.有时某些动物使用其一对触须来游泳。
  • Cuba's government said that Cubans found watching American television on clandestine antennae would face three years in jail.古巴政府说那些用秘密天线收看美国电视的古巴人将面临三年监禁。

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