This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-01-23 07:26
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
On Jan 23, 1989, the service contract for the launch of AsiaSat 1 by the Long March 3 rocket was signed with China Great Wall Industry Corp, the country's sole provider of commercial satellite launch services.
An item in China Daily on April 9, 1990, showed AsiaSat 1 being launched into the designated orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province.
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