Initially the space program of the PRC was organized under the People’s Liberation Army, particularly the Second Artillery Corps. In the 1990s, however, the PRC reorganized the space program as part of a general reorganization of the defense industry to make it resemble Western defense procurement. The China National Space Administration, an agency within the [...]
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During the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship period After the United States threatened to use nuclear weapons during the Korean War, Chairman Mao Zedong decided that only a nuclear deterrent of its own would guarantee the security of the newly founded PRC. Additionally, he wanted China to gain status among the world’s powers that, as he [...]
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The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province at 11:35 p.m. (Beijing Time).
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