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Posted on April 10, 2019

With the successful launch of Dongfanghong I, China became the fifth country after the Soviet Union, United States, France, and Japan to independently launch a satellite.

Replica of Dongfanghong 1Dongfanghong 1 with Long March 1

P3-zond_7k-l1

P2-Long March 1 with Dongfanghong 1

P1-Dong Fang Hong I – Chinese first satellite (1970), Space technology exhibition in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

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