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  • Chinese satellite successfully launched to monitor environment

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    A Long March 4C rocket lifts off Tuesday from the Taiyuan space base. Credit: Xinhua China launched a civilian-operated Earth-observing satellite Tuesday to survey global land and water resources, air pollutants, greenhouse gases and other environmental parameters. The Gaofen 5 environmental monitoring satellite launched at 1828 GMT (2:28 p.m. EDT) Tuesday aboard a Long March…