China on Monday launched a large missile 6,200 km above the Earth, the highest since 1976, sub-orbital launch to Harvard University scientists.
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, an astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell said the rocket launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's western region, and China, said rocket science payload of the Earth's magnetosphere.
He said the rocket may also be used in anti-satellite payload on a similar trajectory, but there is no evidence that the launch in order to test this ability.
The United States is still worried about China's development of anti-satellite capabilities, missile shot one in 2007 after the collapse of satellites in orbit, creating a large amount of space debris.
Monday rocket similar small rocket launch using the Blue Scout, the U.S. Air Force in the 1960s to study the Earth's magnetosphere, McDowell said in an email response.
Launch came less than a week after the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter launched his so-called "long overdue" efforts in order to protect U.S. national security satellites and the development of ways to deal with potential adversaries space capability.
The Pentagon also released a 83-page report, the importance of China's growing space capabilities, and said that Beijing to carry out a number of activities designed to prevent adversaries the use of space-based assets during the crisis, China's military development.
Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on China's rocket launch.



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