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Mission Reports
First element of Chinese space station ready for liftoff
The core module of China’s space station is packaged inside the nose cone of a heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket for liftoff late Wednesday (U.S. time), the first of 11 launches to deliver astronauts, supplies, experiments, and new laboratory modules to build out the orbiting complex before the end of 2022.
Mission Reports
Photos: O3b satellites prepared for Soyuz launch
Antares Launcher