Word: xichang
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...have the ability to send a satellite to the moon, why is it so difficult to send all corrupt officials to prison?' WU MINGFA, a farmer from Xichang, China. The country launched its first lunar probe...
...MINGFA, a farmer from Xichang, China, where the nation's first orbiter launched...
...Chinese missile launched Jan. 11 from Xichang Space Center was aimed at the Feng Yun 1C, a Chinese meteorological satellite drifting 535 miles above the Earth. But the strike - which smashed the seven-year-old orbiter into a cloud of space flotsam - may also have been directed at a target closer at hand. Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province, has long been the object of the mainland's saber-rattling missile tests and amphibious-assault war games. The demonstration of an ability to destroy satellites in orbit - belatedly confirmed by Beijing this week - could mean China is ready...