May 2 1998
From The Space Library
The Chinese Long March 2C rocket launched two U.S. satellites into orbit, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province in northern China. The satellites were part of a mobile telecommunications system that Motorola Corporation had developed for the Iridium World Communications network scheduled to begin commercial service on 23 September 1998. The Iridium contract had "boosted China's launching industry," which had been "struggling to recover from a string of launch disasters in 1995 and 1996."471
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