The spacecraft was sent up at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi desert at 7: 30 a.m. Beijing time Monday with a Long March-2F Y11 carrier rocket.

航天飞船于北京时间星期一上午7：30在中国西北部戈壁沙漠的酒泉卫星发射中心由长征二号FY11运载火箭搭载升空。

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Because the moon's body blocks direct radio communication with a probe, China first had to put a satellite in orbit above the moon in a spot where it could send signals to the spacecraft and to Earth.

由于月球阻碍了与探测器的直接无线电通信，中国首先必须把一颗人造卫星送入月球轨道上的一个点，人造卫星可以从那里向航天器和地球发射信号。

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One wasn't really anyone's fault: a random collision in 2009 between a long-defunct Russian military spacecraft and an Iridium commercial communications satellite.

一件事实上不是任何人的错：2009年发生在一架长期废弃的俄罗斯军用航天器和一颗铱星商用通讯卫星之间的一次随机碰撞。

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They would try to move their spacecraft as close as possible to the satellite.

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Some satellite developers are beginning to design spacecraft so that sensitive instruments are located towards the back of the satellite to minimise any risk of impact damage, and the side facing away from earth is shielded to protect it from meteoroids.

ECONOMIST: Orbital debris

The company's launch operations have been hampered in recent years more by the inability of satellite manufacturers to deliver their spacecraft on time than by problems linked to the rocket itself.

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The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit for US satellite phone and data company, Globalstar.

BBC: Soyuz back in service after failed launch