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Cargo spacecraft Tianzhou 1 docks with lab as 5 months of tests begin

By Zhao Lei | China Daily | Updated: 2017-04-24 07:42

China's first cargo spacecraft, the Tianzhou 1, has docked with the country's Tiangong II space laboratory and will stay in space about five months to conduct tests and experiments.

The docking took place on Saturday afternoon about 380 kilometers above the Earth, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

Tianzhou 1, the country's largest and heaviest spacecraft, was lifted atop a Long March 7 rocket on Thursday night at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province. The Tiangong II has been in space since mid-September and carried two Chinese astronauts from mid-October to mid-November. It is now unmanned.

Cargo spacecraft Tianzhou 1 docks with lab as 5 months of tests begin

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