April 19, 2017 5:26 PM

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China to launch 1st Cargo spacecraft to dock with orbiting experimental space station

China will launch its first cargo spacecraft tomorrow to dock with the orbiting experimental space station. The office of China's manned space programme said today Tianzhou-1, the first cargo ship independently developed by China, will be launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Hainan Province.<br/><br/>A Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket which will launch the spacecraft was transferred from the testing centre to the launch zone in Wenchang. China currently is in the process of building permanent station by 2022 to rival Russia's International Space Station (ISS).

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