China deploys new generation rocket for space missions
中国为太空任务部署新一代火箭
BEIJING: China is deploying a newly-built medium-sized rocket to take heavy payloads – of up to 13.5 tonnes – to its space missions especially the space station currently under construction.
中国正在部署新建的载荷高达13.5吨的中型火箭，执行太空任务，特别是正在建的太空站。
It has taken researchers eight years to develop the new-generation Long March-7 rocket, which can carry up to 13.5 tonnes to low Earth orbit, Li Hong, director of the Carrier Rocket Technology Research Institute with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said.
中国航天科技集团公司运载火箭技术研究院的Li Hong表示，研究人员花了8年时间研发新一代的长征七号火箭，可以把13.5吨的载荷送上近地轨道。
长征系列运载火箭
The rocket departed for its launch base in Hainan today from north China’s port of Tianjin.
今天，火箭被从北方港口天津运往海南的发射基地。
“The Long March-7 launch scheduled for late June will be of great significance as it will usher in China’s space lab mission,” state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Yang Baohua, deputy manager of the company as saying.
预计6月底发射的长征7号火箭，具有重大意义，将引领中国的太空实验室任务。
进行合练长征7号火箭
China plans to launch second experimental orbiting space lab, Tiangong-2, this fall and it is scheduled to dock with manned spacecraft Shenzhou-11 in the fourth quarter.
中国计划今年秋季发射第二个太空实验室，天宫2号
预计第四个季度和神舟11号载人飞船对接。
