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    coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC), also known as the Xichang Space Center, is a spaceport in China. It is located...
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    program Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Wenchang Satellite Launch Center Xichang Satellite Launch Center Hyperbola-1 "Jiuquan Space Launch Center - Facilities...
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  • Intelsat 708 (category Satellite launch failures)
    March 3B launch vehicle failed while being launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China. The launch vehicle veered off course immediately after...
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  • (see Head-on engagement). It was launched with a multistage solid-fuel missile from Xichang Satellite Launch Center or nearby. Aviation Week & Space Technology...
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  • Satellite Launch Center Xichang Satellite Launch Center Wenchang Satellite Launch Center In addition to the flights that took place in the mentioned launch pads...
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  • Chinasat (category Communications satellite constellations)
    launched at 16:30 UTC on 5 August 2021 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-3B/G3 from the LA-2 launch complex. The satellite is...
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  • was launched into an equatorial elliptical orbit of 570 x 78 970 km with inclination 28.5° to the equator from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. This...
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    measurement, as well as launch recovery. Unit 63790 - 27th Experimental Training Base (中国人民解放军第二十七试验训练基地) / Xichang Satellite Launch Center (西昌卫星发射中心): Headquartered...
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  • 2011, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China. The primary objectives of the Space Programme 2040 were to advance satellite technology, promote...
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    the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in 1982. He spent 31 years working at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, including 10 years as the center director...
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    LM-3C, is a Chinese orbital launch vehicle. It is launched from Launch Complex 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC). A three-stage rocket...
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  • Apstar 6 (category Communications satellite stubs)
    communications satellite built by Alcatel Space, a subsidiary of Alcatel, and was boosted into orbit on April 12, 2005, by Long March 3B launcher from Xichang Satellite...
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  • Alcomsat-1 (category Communications satellites)
    Algerian communications satellite. It was carried by Chinese launcher Long March 3B from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, located in Sichuan Province...
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  • Tongxin Jishu Shiyan (category Satellite series)
    Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) and launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) in China's southern Sichuan Province. TJS is...
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    Filipino-owned satellite to be launched to space, which deployed into orbit by Chinese Chang Zheng 3B rocket and was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center...
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    orbital carrier rocket design. They were all launched from Launch Area 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It was a three-stage rocket, and was mostly...
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    program Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Xichang Satellite Launch Center Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site Li, Guoli;...
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    inclined geosynchronous orbit) satellite, was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center by a Long March 3A on 1 December 2011 (UTC). In September 2003...
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    a Chinese orbital launch vehicle. Introduced in 1996, it is launched from Launch Area 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan. A three-stage...
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    space city Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Xichang Satellite Launch Center Wenchang Satellite Launch Center Beijing Aerospace...
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    to launch commercial communications satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit. Launches took place from launch complex 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch...
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    The launch center was opened to international commercial launches in the 1990s with its launch of two U.S. Iridium satellites into orbit. Xichang Satellite...
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  • Badr-1 (category Satellites formerly orbiting Earth)
    Pakistan to use its facility, the Badr-1 was finally launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in 1990 on Long March 2E. Badr-1 travelled at 17,500...
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    Xichang (Northern Yi: /o̝˨˩dʐo̝˧/) is a city in and the seat of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Sichuan, China. The Qiongdu were...
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    launch of Dong Fang Hong 1 (China's first satellite) in 1970, expansion of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, building Xichang Satellite Launch Center,...
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    fully completed after the last satellite was successfully launched at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. First launch year: 2011 The European Union and...
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  • Launch Site Xichang Satellite Launch Center Most of the commercial satellite launches of Long March vehicles have been from Xichang Satellite Launch Center...
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    247°N 102.025°E / 28.247; 102.025 (Xichang Satellite Launch Center)) and the warhead destroyed the satellite in a head-on collision at an extremely...
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  • Thumbnail for Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
    the launch of two lunar orbiters, and is now effectively complete. Chang'e 1 was launched aboard a Long March 3A rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center...
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    often known as "cliff villages". Xichang has the Xichang Qingshan Airport and the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The prefecture also features a substantial...
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