Chinese unmanned cargo spacecraft docks with space station module


A Tianzhou-4 spacecraft docks with China's under-construction space station, as seen on a video screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, on May 10, 2022. - Xinhua

BEIJING (Reuters): An unmanned Chinese cargo spacecraft successfully docked with an orbiting space station module on Tuesday (May 10) in the sixth of 11 missions needed to finish building China's first space station by the end of the year.

A Long March-7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-4 spacecraft blasted off at 1:56 a.m. Beijing time (1756 GMT Monday) from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern Hainan province.

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