China launches satellite to take supplies to space station

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China has launched the Tianzhou-8 cargo craft into space from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center. The mission will deliver supplies to the Shenzhou 19 crew, on board China's orbiting space station.   CGTN’s Sun Ye reports.

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00:00China has just launched the Tianzhou-8 cargo ship from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan Province.

00:08Now, it is now on the way to China Space Station.

00:11The Tianzhou-8 cargo ship is expected to arrive at China Space Station in just a few hours.

00:17Now, this is the first resupply mission for China Space Station in 10 months.

00:24The cargo ship is bringing things for both the Taikonauts and the work on the space station.

00:30For the Chinese Taikonauts, the Shenzhou-19 crew, they are getting their life necessities,

00:35including food, medical check-up supplies, and there are also items to help them facilitate their spacewalk in the future.

00:44Also, with the cargo ship, there are tools and maintenance equipment to help maintain the space station.

00:52And there are a lot of scientific projects, experiments going with the Tianzhou-8 cargo ship.

01:00That's including some of the projects that already made bus, including fruit flies in a sub-magnetic facility.

01:10Now, scientists have told us by studying the fruit flies in that condition,

01:16those observations will help people to better prepare for future Mars and moon explorations.

01:24Also, perhaps you have heard there are mock moon soil bricks going up to China Space Station with the Tianzhou-8 cargo ship.

01:34And people are going to study how those bricks work and perform outside to the China Space Station

01:43and how they would weather the environment there.

01:46Also, going up to China Space Station, there are projects that could lead to the making of new materials.

01:54So really, this mission is the start of a lot of new space explorations.

02:00And we are here until it's arrived up to the China Space Station.

02:04Sun Ye, CGTN, at the Beijing Ground Control.

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