Link to source…. China is set to launch its first resupply spacecraft in April, according to well-informed sources. The Tianzhu-1 spacecraft, who departed on 5 February from Tianjin, North China, arrived at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center in Hainan Province yesterday for assembly and testing, as announced by the Chinese Manned Space Mission Agency. The Tianzhou-1 spacecraft consists of a supply chamber and a propulsion chamber and is the first resupply spacecraft built exclusively by China, with a takeoff weight of approx 13 tons, of which six tons are payload. The spacecraft can remain in space for three months and has the capability to dock with the Tiangong-2 spacecraft., refueling it to carry out experiments and tests. Also, as it became known, China is about to launch a robotic mission, in order to return to Earth samples that will be collected from the surface of the Moon next November. It is the first mission of its kind in four decades since the completion of the Soviet Union's Luna robotic mission, in August 1976.Link to source….
