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Those failures were similar to the basic mechanical breakdowns, electrical shorts and software flaws that led to a spate of recent failures in launchings of commercial booster rockets for lifting satellites into space and in the test program for Thaad, which is a less ambitious antimissile system that is meant to protect troops.

For Orbital Sciences, it was second failure in eight launchings of the Taurus XL.

The letter provides new details of how American companies competed for Chinese business by offering to transfer aerospace data in connection with launchings of their satellites.

In particular, a quid pro quo of shutting down the missile program in exchange for launchings of North Korean satellites by foreign governments will be discussed further, a senior official said.

In contrast, it is the launchings of disposable rockets that are routine.

The North had said that its previous launchings of satellites, in 1998 and 2009, succeeded and that it put two satellites into orbit that broadcast patriotic songs.

First they checked if there were any known launchings of weather balloons in the area.

North Korea also agreed to a moratorium on test launchings of long-range missiles, which have in the past inflamed tensions in the region.

Following the successful launchings of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957 and the U.S. satellite Explorer 1 in 1958, both the United States and the U.S.S.R. took an active interest in the development of international space policy.

In the first place, they say, missile sales were becoming less lucrative than the launchings of American satellites that the new arrangement clears the way for.

But commercial launchings of astronauts are years away.