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China to Launch Second Space Lab Tiangong-2 in Q3
  ·  2016-02-29  ·   Source:

China will send its second orbiting space lab Tiangong-2  into space in the third quarter of this year, which is expected to dock with a cargo ship scheduled to be launched in the first half of next year, sources from the manned space program said Sunday.

As part of the country's space lab program, China also plans to launch the Shenzhou-11  spacecraft, which will carry two astronauts on board, in the fourth quarter of this year to dock with Tiangong-2 , according to the program's spokesperson.

After its first test flight in the Wenchang satellite launch center in south China's Hainan Province, the Long March-7 rocket will put the cargo ship Tianzhou-1,  which literally means "heavenly vessel," into space in the first half of 2017 to dock with Tiangong-2  and conduct experiments.

(Xinhua News Agency February 28, 2016)

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