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Forum:	ESA - JAXA - China - International
Topic:	China's Shenzhou VII mission

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]Understandably, the spacewalk is receiving most of the attention today, but the Shenzhou VII crew also deployed a satellite, as [URL=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/27/content_10123015.htm]Xinhua reports[/URL]: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]China's third manned spaceship Shenzhou-7 launched a small monitoring satellite about two hours after an astronaut accomplished the country's first spacewalk Saturday afternoon. The satellite, less than 40 kilograms in weight, will orbit the orbital module and send back the spaceship's first full video images. It is equipped with two cameras that can capture clear images in a distance between four meters and two km, according to Shen Xuemin, deputy director of the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developer of the satellite. The accompanying satellite will observe and assist the main spaceship and work for communication, scientific experiment, earth and astronomy observation, he said.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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