13 July 2020
China's space tracking ship Yuanwang 6 departed from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on 13 July for multiple spacecraft monitoring missions. Yuanwang 6, the third-generation Yuanwang space tracking ship, will carry out missions in the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It will complete a one-way voyage of more than 10,000 nautical miles and operate at sea for 100 days. This is the first time for a Yuanwang ship to perform missions in the three oceans during a single voyage.
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