China Launches Two Satellites, Readies for Third Manned Spaceflight

By Stephen Clark posted: 7 September 2008 China launched two disaster monitoring satellites Saturday as officials announced the country's next piloted space mission could occur before the end of September, state media reported. The two remote sensing birds blasted off at 11:25 p.m. EDT Friday (0325 GMT Saturday). It was late morning Saturday at the Taiyuan launch site in northern China. The two-stage Long March 2C... [read full story]