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Watch China launch Smart Dragon-3 rocket from the sea (video)

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Smart Dragon-3 solid rocket lifted off from a mobile sea platform off the coast of Yangjiang , a city in South China's Guangdong province , at 10:06 p.m. EST on Feb. 2 .

The four -stage, 102-foot-tall ( 31 meters ) rocket carried nine satellites aloft.

The rocket is capable of sending 3,300 pounds ( 1,500 kilograms ) of payload to a 310-mile -high ( 500 kilometers ) sun synchronous orbit.

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