JAKARTA: The National Aeronautics and Space Agency and its Chinese counterpart successfully put Chinese navigation satellite Compass into orbit this weekend, an agency official said.
The satellite, which was launched in Xinchian, China, on Saturday at 11:07 a.m. local time, relayed an operational signal 570 seconds after the launch, agency spokesperson Syafidal told Antara in Garut, West Java, on Monday.
Meanwhile, he said the agency would launch several practice rockets from the area of Cilauteureun Pameungpeuk, 92 kilometers south of Garut, in the near future before sending a rocket into orbit.
On Jan. 10, 2007, the agency launched its first surveillance satellite, named Tubsat, from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India. Tubsat was launched by an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket, which concurrently carried Argentine and Indian satellites as well as an Indian scientific capsule.
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