Video: Long March-5 Y3 rocket takes off from Wenchang, S. China
Updated 23:34, 27-Dec-2019
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The third Long March-5 rocket, China's largest carrier rocket, was successfully launched from Wenchang Space Launch Center on Friday. The rocket is vital to China's future space missions. It will be tasked with launching China's first Mars probe and sending the Chang'e-5 lunar probe to the Moon to bring lunar samples back to Earth.