A satellite jointly owned by China and Brazil...
A satellite jointly owned by China and Brazil was lost after it was launched Monday on a Chinese rocket. CBERS-3 was intended to help generate images in Brazil of agricultural zoning, natural disaster monitoring and other applications, said Brazil’s space…
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agency in a news release (http://bit.ly/1d5t6T9). The launch vehicle, Long March 4B, malfunctioned, and the satellite wasn’t placed into orbit, it said. “Preliminary evaluations suggest that the CBERS-3 has returned to the planet.” The causes of the problem are being evaluated by Chinese engineers, the agency said.