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China’s dark-matter satellite launches era of space science

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Monkey King is first in a line of Chinese space missions focused on scientific discovery.

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Gibney, E., Biever, C. & Castelvecchi, D. China’s dark-matter satellite launches era of space science. Nature 528, 443–444 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.19059

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