Russia launches Chinese satellite
A Proton-M rocket, carrying a Briz-M upper stage with China's AsiaSat 7 satellite rests on a launch pad at the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, on November 22. The rocket completed a successful launch Saturday of an advanced Chinese communications satellite that should help expand television coverage in parts of Southeast Asia.
A Russian Proton-M rocket completed the successful launch Saturday of an advanced Chinese communications satellite that should help expand television coverage in parts of Southeast Asia.
The Roscosmos space agency said the AsiaSat 7 satellite was placed in its designed orbit at 0423 GMT after being launched from the Baikonur space centre in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan on Friday evening.
The mission was accomplished after a recent string of Russian space failures that included the botched launch this summer of what was billed as Europe's largest telecommunications satellite.
The Hong Kong-based Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat) said in a statement that its seventh orbiter will support "a broad range of applications for the Asia-Pacific region" including television broadcasts.
"With AsiaSat 7 successfully launched ... we can assure continuity of service to customers, while at the same time adding to our on-orbit capacity to service new business," said the company's chief executive William Wade.
(c) 2011 AFP
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With the following kind of ignorance being demonstrated by American Conservatives, is there any doubt why?
http://youtu.be/4ZalyKzXnlo
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It were just Bush's conservatives, who started the current financial crisis and decline of USA industry.
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YOU are showing a great deal of intelligence and understanding of the Rus/Sino situation.
YOU also are aware that because of the Liberal educators in the United States teaching American children their Liberal ideology instead of just the normal curriculum, the United States has fallen far behind in comparison to other countries like China and Europe in the areas of math, science, language, and the 2 most important social studies. . .history and geography. I salute your outstanding command of the historic truth.
I believe that eventually, there will be a war between Russia and China in the not too distant future. We will have a nuclear winter then and it will be all about power and control and who is top dog.
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GWBush was NOT a Conservative. . . .far from it. Although he wasn't a "tax and spend" Liberal, he was certainly NOT a fiscal conservative either. He could have taken the Congress to task to tighten up the budget and balance it, but he didn't. And his last 2 years in the White House were as a "lame duck" anyway because Liberal Democrats were in the majority in the House b then. He was hated so much and I never could understand all the vitriol against him. It was as though some kind of fever had come over these people. . . .some strange mental or temporary insanity. But it never went away. Even now the Liberal/Socialists invoke the name of Bush to blame, and it's been over 3 years since he left the Oval Office as President.
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