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Article: 1st Ld-Writethru: China's Chang'e-1 lunar probe completes third orbital transfer
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 29, 2007
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1st Ld-Writethru: China's Chang'e-1 lunar probe completes third
orbital transfer
BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's lunar probe Chang'e-1
completed its third orbital transfer on Monday afternoon, one
morestep forward in its 1,580,000-km journey to the moon.
Instructions for the orbital transfer was issued by the Yuanwang-
3 space tracking ship in south Pacific at around 5:56 pm.
At around 6:01 pm, the probe was successfully transferred to a 48-
hour orbit with an apogee of 120,000 km, up from the former 70,000
km.
It will stay on the orbit until Oct. 31, when it is expected
toenter the earth-moon transfer orbit, a critical point that may
determine whether the satellite can fly to the moon ...