This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-03-26 07:17
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
On March 26, 1998, China Great Wall Industry Corp successfully launched two Iridium satellites into orbit for US company Motorola, as seen in the item from China Daily.
The launch marked the country's 50th flight of the Long March rocket. From September 1997 to June 1999, 12 Iridium satellites were launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province.
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