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The coronavirus outbreak in northern China has hit the country’s space programme , halting development of a rocket to launch satellites into orbit, according to the state-backed company behind the project. Every member of the testing team for the Kuaizhou-1A orbital launch rocket has been placed in an “emergency state of semi-lockdown”, said Expace Technology, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Aerospace Science & Industry Corporation. “According to regulations from the Jiuquan satellite launch centre and the local government, work related to the fifth Kuaizhou-1A rocket has been suspended,” the company said on its WeChat social media account on Tuesday....
