China launches new communication satellite
Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror
China sent a new communication satellite into orbit Tuesday from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan.
The ChinaSat 3B satellite was launched at 7:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-7A carrier rocket. The satellite entered the preset orbit successfully.
The satellite will provide voice, data, radio and television transmission services.
The launch marked the 577th mission of the Long March series carrier rockets.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
