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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. Should we let them launch? by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Guys I'm not sure we should let China fire a rocket after all what if it's secretly a weapon? They have no right to fire rockets while we're around!