Complex sentence: Fired from Sonmiani Beach, 50 km west of Karachi, the rocket reached an altitude of almost 130 km. The US space agency NASA hailed the launch as the beginning of a program of continuing cooperation in space research of mutual interest.
Split into simpler sentences: Fired from Sonmiani Beach, 50 kilometers west of Karachi, the rocket reached an altitude of almost 130 kilometers. The U.S. space agency NASA hailed the launch as the beginning of a program of continuing cooperation in space research of mutual interest.