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China’s ambitious Tianwen-1 mission has travelled mor..5 million km since July, is safely on its way to Mars – Firstpost
The spacecraft consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, and was blasted into space aboard a Long March-5 rocket on 23 July.
The Associated PressSep 14, 2020 10:18:17 IST
Chinas Mars probe Tianwen-1, which blasted into space in July, is now more than 15 million kilometres 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 kilometres from Earth when it arrives at Mars around February, having travelled 470 million ki…
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