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Urgent: Launch of Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft successful

Xinhua, April 20, 2017 Adjust font size:

China declared the launch of cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 a success, as it entered designated orbit Thursday night.

The spacecraft, atop a Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket, blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province. Endi