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Updated March 2006
Missile Facilities
China Satellite Control and Tracking General
China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control General (CLTC)
Location: Beijing
Other Names:
China Satellite Launch and TT&C General (TT&C: Tracking, Telemetry, and Control)
China Satellite Launch and Telemetry
Tracking and Control General Company; national space and missile tracking command center
Established in 1966. CLTC, an arm of the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND), oversees China's three launch sites and all launch and tracking activities.
[Sources: "World Space Markets Survey," 1994 Edition; Michael Mecham, "Long March Successful In Crucial Asiasat-2 Launch," Aviation Week & Space Technology, 4 December 1995, p. 25; Air and Cosmos/Aviation International (Paris), 25 October 1996, in FBIS-CST-96-020, 25 October 1996.]
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