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Apstar 2 26/01/1995 [Reuters Footage]

Footage of Apstar 2's failed launch from Reuters Screenocean. reuters.screenocean.com/record/1010688 "A Chinese rocket carrying a telecommunications satellite exploded in an orange fireball and crashed to earth Thursday, dealing a heavy blow to the space ambitions of China and major television broadcasters alike. Live state-run TV showed the liftoff Thursday morning from the Xichang Satellite Launching Center in Sichuan province, 1,300 miles southwest of Beijing. Sixty-five seconds after clearing the launch pad, the Long March-2 rocket exploded into bright red flames, along with the Apstar-2 satellite. A few minutes later, a reporter appeared and said simply, "As everyone has just seen from the screen, our launch of the Apstar-2 satellite for the APT Satellite Co. was not successful because of an accident." The official Xinhua News Agency said the cause of the blast was unknown. The Apstar-2 satellite was to serve Asia, eastern Europe, northern Africa and Australia. A hundred foreign executives were present to witness the launch of Apstar, which they hoped would revolutionize Asia's potentially huge TV market with its advanced digital, compression and encryption technology. The clients of the satellite included Turner Broadcasting, sports channel ESPN, Home Box Office, Discovery Channel, Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts and Reuters Television. The failed launch for Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Co. is the latest in a series of blows to China's 5-year-old commercial satellite launching industry. The Apstar-2 was built by Hughes Aircraft Co., an aerospace and electronics subsidiary of General Motors Corp. that also built Apstar-1, a satellite China launched on July 21. It is the second Hughes satellite to be lost in a Chinese launch. An Australian-owned communications satellite built by the company was destroyed shortly after its December 1992 launch. Hughes spokeswoman Fran Slimmer said from California that a thorough investigation would be undertaken."