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China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch

Posted by timothy on from the kazakhstan-facility-of-space-object-tossing-very-nice dept.

henrypijames writes "At the Shanghai Aerospace Exhibition last week, China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1 was the main attraction. The newly completed probe will soon be sent to Moscow for some further testing, before a joint launch with Russia's own probe Phobos-Grunt from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this October."

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  1. Re:Sounds fine to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When is an AFRICAN country going to send a probe to Mars?
    How about send a probe to the Moon?
    How about put a satellite in space?
    Build an aeroplane?
    Build a car?
    A bicycle?

    Oh, wait...