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Chinese Rocket Launches Satellite to Wrong Orbit

By Stephen Clark


posted: 31 August 2009
10:31 pm ET

Breaking a 13-year streak of successful launches, a Chinese Long March rocket failed to deliver an Indonesian communications satellite to its planned orbit Monday. Carrying the Palapa D telecommunications satellite, a Long March 3B rocket blasted off from the Xichang launch base in southwestern China at 0928 GMT (5:28 a.m. EDT) Monday.

The three-stage launcher, boosted by four liquid-fueled strap-on engines, flew as expected during the first few minutes of the flight. But a failure occurred about 20 minutes after liftoff as the third stage was scheduled to ignite for its second burn of the mission, according to the official state-run Xinhua news agency.

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