A Long March blasts off in 2014.
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A Chinese Long March 6A upper stage broke apart after deploying the first 18 members of a planned Starlink-like satellite network, leaving more than 300 pieces of trackable debris in low Earth orbit (LEO). The rocket lifted off from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Aug. 6 with 18 Qianfan...
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