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China says Mars probe stable; no word on reusable spacecraft – OPB News
China’s National Space Administration says the country’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 is now more than 9 million miles from Earth en route to the red planet since launching in July
BEIJING (AP) Chinas Mars probe Tianwen-1, which blasted into space in July, is now more than 15 million kilometers (9 million miles) from Earth en route to the red planet, the National Space Administration said Saturday.
The administration said that Tianwen-1 was in stable condition, having completed its first mid-course orbital correction early last month. It will be about 195 million kilometers (118 million miles) from Earth when it arrives at Mars around February, having traveled 470 million…
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