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Shenzhou VI spaceship
At 9:09 a.m. on October 12, 2005, the Shenzhou VI spaceship, together with the astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, was launched by the Changzheng 2Fcarrier rocket from Jiuquan Spaceflight Launching Site. At 120 seconds after taking-off the escape tower separated; at 137 seconds the boosters separated; at 159 seconds the first stage separated and the second stage ignited; at 200 seconds fairing separated; at 461 seconds the second stage main engine powered off; at 584 seconds spaceship separated from the rocket and entered an elliptical orbit with inclination of 42.4o, the perigee height of 200km and the apogee height of 346.8 km. In the orbit,the spaceship set up an in-orbit operating mode and unfolded the solar cell arrays on the propulsion module to point the sun. When the
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