Xichang, Dec 10 (UNI) China on Sunday launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket, placing a remote sensing satellite in space.
The rocket blasted off at 9:58 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan and sent the Yaogan-39 satellite into the preset orbit.
It was the 500th flight mission of the Long March series rockets.
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Moscow, Dec 12 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Monday that two new nuclear submarines – Emperor Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk – will join the country’s Pacific Fleet soon.
Yangon, Dec 12 (UNI) A total of 82 people were killed, and 301 others injured in 151 traffic accidents on Myanmar’s Yangon-Mandalay highway within 11 months of this year, Deputy Sheriff of Highway Police Office Myo Lin Thant told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Wellington, Dec 12 (UNI) A new research published on Tuesday suggested that tsunamis could reach up to 28 meters, and that the northern and eastern coasts of New Zealand’s North Island are most at risk of being impacted by the largest tsunami waves.
Islamabad, Dec 12 (UNI) At least three policemen were killed and several others injured in an attack on a police station in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, police said.
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Tokyo, Dec 12 (UNI) A 116-year-old woman recognized as the oldest person in Japan died of old age in Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, on Tuesday morning, local media reported.