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[i]An anomaly occurred during the flight of the rocket, which blasted off at 7:23 p.m. [local time; (7:23 a.m. EDT or 1123 GMT] from Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern province of Hainan.[/i]
[i]The two-stage heavy-lift launcher's next mission was slated to dispatch the Chang'e 5 mission to collect soil and rock specimens from the lunar surface in November. The probe will launch a return capsule from the moon to bring the samples back to to Earth. It was not clear Sunday how the launch failure will affect the scheduled launch of Chang'e 5, China's most ambitious robotic deep space mission to date, and the first lunar sample return attempt since 1976. A Long March 5 rocket next year is scheduled to deliver the core module of China's future space station to orbit. China has also assigned the Long March 5 to send at least two more station segments into space to assemble the human-tended research complex in orbit, and a Long March 5 will launch China's first Mars rover in mid-2020.[/i]
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