With this launcher, called Aldebaran, France is pushing technological limits “perhaps more aggressively” than the United States, says a US Air Force space official and former defence attaché to Paris.

利用这种称为Aldebaran的运载火箭，法国正冲破技术局限，“或许比美国更雄心勃勃”，一位美国空军太空官员及前巴黎防务武官称。

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The resulting rocket, the most powerful in use by the US Air Force, is capable of lifting over 23,000 kilograms into low Earth orbit, comparable to NASA's Space Shuttle.

该运载火箭是美国空军所有火箭中运载能力最强的，可以将23000公斤的货物送入地球低轨道，可与NASA的航天飞机媲美。

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China signalled yesterday that its first missile strike against an orbiting satellite was intended to force the US into talks aimed at abolishing weapons in space.

中国方面昨天告知，中国发射的第一颗打击轨道卫星的导弹是有意的，目的是迫使美国加入禁止太空武器的会谈。

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Things have gotten a little more interesting, though, now that the US Air Force Space Command has officially piped in.

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The satellite, FalconSat-2, was built by US Air Force Academy cadets to investigate the phenomenon known as "space weather".

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