03 August 2016
China is transferring two of its Long March II F or CZ-2F carrier rockets to their launch site in the west of the country. This is the first time that two CZ-2F rockets are being transferred to the launch center at the same time. One of the carrier rockets is scheduled for launch in the third quarter of this year to send the Tiangong-2 space laboratory into space. The other carrier rocket will lift off later carrying two astronauts to dock with the space laboratory and embark onto the Tiangong-2.
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