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China muscles into the space race

The space race is getting more crowded.

A private company in China plans to become the country's first non-government commercial enterprise to launch a satellite into orbit later this year. The company is called Landspace, and it's taking advantage of technology developed by the mobile phone industry.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Russell Padmore starts with a little bit of space history.

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