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Maritime monitoring vessel ready for China's Tiangong-2

(Xinhua)    09:13, September 16, 2016

BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The maritime monitoring vessel Yuanwang-5 has arrived at its designated area in the Pacific Ocean to track the upcoming space journey of the Tiangong-2 space lab.

China will launch its Tiangong-2 space lab from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi desert at 10:04 p.m. Thursday, the most recent stage in its increasingly ambitious space program, the aim of which is a manned space station by around 2022. 

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