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Two Chinese rockets deploy telecom and environmental monitoring satellites with spacecraft’s instruments including a UV hyperspectral atmospheric composition detector and more

A Long March 3B rocket lifts off with the Chinasat 6D communications satellite. Credit: CASCStephen Clark at Spaceflight Now reports two Chinese rocket launches hours apart Friday successfully deployed a radio and TV broadcasting spacecraft and an atmospheric environmental monitoring satellite.The missions from different spaceports lifted off a little more than six hours apart, continuing…

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