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China is working on the development of a new generation of carrier rockets featuring a larger thrust to cater to the demand of building a space station, a chief rocket engineer said Thursday.
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With a length of 10.4 meters and maximum diameter of 3.35 meters, China's first space lab module is hardly the size of any palace.
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Fuel has been injected into the Long March carrier rocket, which the Tiangong-1 is mounted to and scheduled to be launched Thursday evening at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
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