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China Launches Satellite for Indigenous Global Navigation
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- China on Sunday successfully launched its eighth orbiter which will form part of its indigenous satellite-navigation and -positioning network.

A Long March-3A carrier rocket carrying the "Beidou," or Compass, navigation satellite took off on Sunday morning from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

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