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Article: China set to challenge U.S. launches.
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- UPI Emerging Threats
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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China is to aggressively go after the U.S.- and Russia-dominated commercial launch market with its new fourth space center, a space analyst has claimed.
The Chinese government announced last week the development of the Wenchang Center, named after the nearby city on the country's most southerly island Hainan and just 19 degrees from the equator.
The facility will rise from what is a former low-orbital vehicle space launch center to become China's premier launch facility capable of taking the new Long March CZ-5 rockets, still in the design development stage.
When the facility starts becoming operational beginning as early as 2013, China will ...