China: Satellite Enters Moon's Orbit

By HENRY SANDERSON, Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Space Exploration

A crowd watches China's first moon orbiter Chang'e 1 lift off from the launch pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan province, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007. Over a few short months, Japan, China, and India will all have lunar probes orbiting the moon, sparking talk of a new space race in Asia. China for one says that's hardly the case, defending its own vehicle launched last week as an innovation that is part of a future wave of cooperation, not competition, up there. (AP Photo)

(AP) -- A Chinese satellite successfully entered lunar orbit Monday, a month after rival Japan put its own probe into orbit around the moon, but Chinese officials denied there was any competition between the two nations.

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