China launches rocket from Yellow Sea platform for first time
by Associate Press in Beijing from Science | The Guardian on (#4GJBK)
Blast-off makes China the third country after US and Russia to master sea launch technology
China has launched a rocket from a mobile platform at sea for the first time, sending five commercial satellites and two others containing experimental technology into space.
The Long March 11 rocket blasted off from a launch pad onboard a commercial ship in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Shandong province - the 306th Long March rocket launch, but the first one at sea.
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