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China has announced that it plans to launch a satellite to test a new technology aimed at giving smartphone users instant access to high-resolution cameras in space.

According to the South China Morning Post, a professor of remote sensing engineering at Wuhan University, Wang Mei, said that this technology means that any region or event can be broadcast live from orbit to a mobile device on the other side of the planet with a delay of no more than 10 minutes.

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