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      China's cargo spacecraft completes third in-orbit refueling

      September 17, 2017

      BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- China's Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft and Tiangong-2 space lab completed their third and last in-orbit refueling at 8:17 p.m. Saturday.

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      The third refueling, lasting about three days, confirmed the technical results from the second refueling.

      Tianzhou-1, China's first cargo spacecraft, was launched on April 20 from south China's Hainan Province, and it completed automated docking with the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab on April 22.

      The two spacecraft completed their first in-orbit refueling on April 27 and second on June 15.

      In the past five months, Tianzhou-1 has operated smoothly and completed various tasks.