The home-developed telecommunications satellite, Zhongxing-22A, with a Long March-3A rocket carrier, blasts off at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, at 00:02 on Wednesday, September 13, 2006. Zhongxing-22A, an earth-synchronous telecommunications satellite is designed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Technology Group Company. [Xinhua]

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