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Chinese spacecraft enters Mars orbit – The New Daily

An unmanned Chinese spacecraft called Tianwen-1 has successfully entered orbit around Mars. The probe is one of three reaching Mars this month.

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An unmanned Chinese spacecraft has successfully entered orbit around Mars after a six-and-a-half month journey from earth.
The robotic probe initiated and completed a 15-minute burn of its thrusters, the China National Space Administration said in a statement, slowing the spacecraft to a speed at which it could be captured by the pull of Mars’ gravity.
In about three months, the Tianwen-1 will attempt to send a landing capsule carrying a 240-kilogram rover in a rapid seven-minute descent onto a…

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