"Andrew Yee" wrote in message
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Space Imaging
Thornton, Colorado

IKONOS IMAGE OF THE WEEK: October 5, 2003

Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China
[http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/...-05/index.htm]

Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite collected this resampled one-meter
resolution
satellite image of China's expansive Jiuquan Space Launch Center in
northwestern
China about 100 kilometers north of the city of Jiuquan Oct. 4, 2003. The
image
shows the vehicle assembly area and launch pad. Coordinates taken from the
map-accurate image shows the launch pad to be located at latitude 40.9581,
longitude 100.2912. According to news reports and the Chinese News Agency,
China
is set to launch their first astronaut into space next week making them
only the
third nation to launch a manned-spacecraft into orbit.

Credit: Space Imaging

Nice launch pad... (no LV visible and feeling cynical).
Nice tribute to a dictatorship that's killed hundreds of thousands of
people - when does GWB start bombing this one? Or does he only have enough
guts to take on countries with no capability to defend themselves?

--
Alan Erskine
alanerskine(at)optusnet.com.au

Schwartzenegger - the new Reagan.