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 | | By the end of 1996, China had launched thirty-seven of its own satellites, including sixteen returnable remote-sensing satellites, seven communications satellites, two meteorological satellites, and twelve scientific and technical experimental satellites, as part of three applied satellite series: low-Earth-orbit returnable remote-sensing satellites, geostationary Earth orbit communications satellites, and Sun-synchronous orbit meteorological satellites (see Table 2). |
 | | There are two kinds of these satellites: the DFH-2 (Dong Fang Hong-2), which is basically the same as the experimental satellites, and the four DFH-2A satellites, which are modified versions of the DFH-2. |
 | | An Intelsat IV (F-8) satellite relayed live television pictures of President Nixon's historic 1974 trip to China. |
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