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HELSINKI — An orbital launch attempt by Chinese startup iSpace suffered failure early Friday, following on from two failures last year. The fourth Hyperbola-1, a four-stage solid rocket, lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 3:09 a.m. Eastern May 13. Apparent launch footage appeared on a Chinese social media site shortly after launch but a period of silence followed, extending well past the time at which a similar launch could have been declared successful. The failure was confirmed by Chinese state media Xinhua four hours after launch. Teams are investigating the specific reasons for...

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A Chinese cryptocurrency trading platform recently collapsed, prompting speculation that the site was running a scam.On Oct. 15, the platform, Aishang, saw the cryptocurrency traded on its site named Tether plummet from 0.268U (USDT, equivalent to $0.28) to 0.05U within 3 minutes of opening.Aishang is one of three Chinese crypto exchanges that crashed around the same time, according to local media.An investor named Liu Qing (alias) told the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times that Aishang was a Ponzi scheme. He said that if this was a normal trading site, the low costs to enter the new market would cause...