China Successfully Launches Its Newest And Largest Carrier Rocket, Long March 5B

ABC News Online: China launches powerful new rocket key to building its own orbiting space station

China is celebrating the successful trial launch of a newly designed spacecraft, described a key part of its program to build an orbiting space station, Chinese state media says.

The unmanned spacecraft and its return capsule, which can carry six astronauts at a time, rather than just three, were flung into space aboard a Long March 5B rocket.

It was the debut flight of the Long March 5B, which was specially designed to propel modules of China's future space station into orbit.

China plans to build a large space facility to orbit the Earth, with multiple modules to rival the scale of the International Space Station.

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