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China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 departs for new monitoring missions
Updated: Feb 20, 2021
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NANJING -- China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 on Saturday set sail for the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu province for upcoming maritime monitoring missions.
It is the ship's first voyage this year.
Commissioned on May 18, 1995, Yuanwang-3 is a second-generation Chinese space tracking ship. It has undertaken more than 90 maritime tracking and monitoring tasks for spacecraft, including the Shenzhou spaceships, Chang'e lunar probes and BeiDou satellites.
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