China launches spacecraft via largest carrier rocket
중국, 창정 5B 운반로켓 발사 성공…"우주정류장 건설 서막"
China successfully launched its largest carrier rocket on Tuesday,... carrying a new-generation spacecraft.
According to China's state broadcaster CCTV,... the Long March-5B carrier rocket took off at 6PM, local time,... from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southern island province of Hainan.
The launch came as China announced in March that it was aiming to send an experimental spacecraft without a crew,... as part of a broader spaceflight program to shuttle astronauts to its future space station and for future manned space exploration.
China successfully launched its largest carrier rocket on Tuesday,... carrying a new-generation spacecraft.
According to China's state broadcaster CCTV,... the Long March-5B carrier rocket took off at 6PM, local time,... from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southern island province of Hainan.
The launch came as China announced in March that it was aiming to send an experimental spacecraft without a crew,... as part of a broader spaceflight program to shuttle astronauts to its future space station and for future manned space exploration.