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Watch this satellite footage of a rocket launching from the Gobi Desert
Another success for the Chinese private startup OneSpace, but no rockets have gone to orbit yet
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Maybe this is how the next space race will occur - not with nations trying to one-up each other but with tech companies trying to be the first to get into, colonize and commercialize space.