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Military communications craft likely aboard Chinese launch

November 3, 2015 Stephen Clark

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket lifted off Tuesday from the country’s Xichang space base, heading into orbit with a secretive payload believed by Western observers to be a military communications satellite.