Last Sunday, it was D-day for China! The country successfully launched its first direct broadcasting satellite — SINOSAT-2 — into space aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket. According to the Xinhua news agency, it was launched from the Xichang launch centre in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province.
Designed to serve television and broadband multimedia systems on the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in it’s 15-year lifespan; the satellite was developed and manufactured mainly by the China Academy of Space Technology.
In an earlier report, industry analysts predicted that once individuals are allowed to install dishes, up to 100 million households will ignore the ban on it between 2006 and 2010!
