23 July 2020
Three space tracking ships of China's Yuanwang provided maritime monitoring support for China's first Mars probe launch on 23 July. They were all positioned in the Pacific Ocean when the CZ-5 rocket took off from Wenchang cosmodrome at 04:41 UTC
About six minutes after the liftoff, Yuanwang-6 detected and locked its targets. The other two tracking ships, Yuanwang-5 and Yuanwang-7, then took turns to complete their missions. The monitoring process lasted nearly 30 minutes.
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