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China launches spy satellites into orbit before winter

A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the satellite Yaogan-39 blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan province, on 5 October, 2023.
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the satellite Yaogan-39 blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan province, on 5 October, 2023. © Chen Yi/Xinhua via AFP
The Chinese People's Liberation Army is putting its satellite constellations in order to monitor its regional neighbours and the conflicts in Ukraine and in the Middle East, as winter approaches in the northern hemisphere. [...]
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