China successfully launches unmanned spacecraft
China early Tuesday has successfully launched unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8, announced Commander-in-chief of China's manned space program Chang Wanquan.The spacecraft was successfully sent into the designated orbit after the blastoff at 5:58 am at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern desert area, carried by an upgraded Long March-2F rocket, reports Xinhua news.It is heading to rendezvous with the Tiangong-1, or ``Heavenly Palace-1'' that was put into space on Sept. 29 for the country's first space docking.
China early on Wednesday ``successfully'' launched a Turkish earth observation satellite into orbit aboard a Chinese rocket, according to state media, hailed in Turkey as a ``historic moment''.