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Latest on China's space outpost: Record-breaking spacewalk and satellite constellation

Shenzhou-19 crew members aboard China's orbiting space station completed a record-breaking nine-hour spacewalk at 9:57 p.m. Beijing Time on Tuesday. This extravehicular activity (EVA) was not only the longest by Chinese astronauts but also included the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut born in 1990. Before the year 2024 concludes, more satellites are taking ride-shares into orbit. A new group of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites were launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Tuesday and the first group of low Earth orbit satellites for a satellite internet constellation were launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province on Monday, on a Long March-5B carrier rocket.

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