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China sent three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, putting a civilian into orbit for the first time as it pursues plans to send a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030.The world's second-largest economy has invested billions of dollars in its military-run space programme in a push to catch up with the United States and Russia. The Shenzhou-16 crew took off atop a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 9:31 am (0131 GMT), AFP journalists saw. They docked at the…

A Chinese startup’s attempt to use a rocket fueled with liquid methane and oxygen to place a satellite in orbit failed. A Chinese startup's attempt to use a rocket fueled with liquid methane and oxygen to place a satellite in orbit failed in its mission on Wednesday, according to a statement on the company's Weibo account. The brief statement on LandSpace Technology Corp.'s launch said the rocket's main engines were performing normally, but that there was an abnormality in a supplementary second-stage engine. The…