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Friday, October 24, 2014

China launches unmanned spacecraft


China today launched an unmanned spacecraft to fly around the moon and back to Earth in order to test technologies to be used in the Chang’e-5, a future probe that will conduct the country’s first Moon mission with a provision to return back.

The lunar orbiter was launched atop an advanced Long March-3C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province in the early hours.

The test spacecraft separated from its carrier rocket and entered the expected orbit shortly after the lift-off, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence said.

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