Wentian space lab goes into orbit
By ZHAO LEI in Wenchang, Hainan/chinadaily.com.cn |
China Daily |
Updated: 2022-07-25 07:23
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Rocket blasts off and carries craft to nearly 400 km above the ground
China launched its Wentian space laboratory on Sunday afternoon, sending the country's largest-ever spacecraft into Earth's orbit to become part of the Tiangong space station.
Encased in a 20.5-meter-long payload, the space lab was carried by a Long March 5B rocket that blasted off at 2:22 pm from a coastal service tower in the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province.
After a flight of about eight minutes, the rocket placed the craft into a low-Earth orbit nearly 400 kilometers above the ground.
