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 BEIJING (AP) - China launched a new communications satellite into orbit early Friday to provide broader radio and television signal coverage across the country, state media reported.
The Long March-3A rocket lifted off from the Xichang launching center in southwestern China eight minutes after midnight and separated from the SinoSat-3 satellite 24 minutes later, the Xinhua News Agency said.
The long-scheduled launch follows the failed deployment last October of another communications satellite, SinoSat-2, whose solar panels and communications antennae did not operate properly, Xinhua said.
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