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2nd Ld-Writethru: China's Chang'e-1 lunar probe completes first orbital correction

BEIJING, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 successfully carried out its first orbital correction Friday morning in a bid to ensure that it travels on the pre-set orbit.

Instructions for the orbital correction was issued by the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) at 10:25 a.m. Friday, whentwo small engines on Chang'e-1 were ignited to slightly modulate its trajectory.

Eight minutes later, the two engines stopped working and the orbital correction completed.

"Data show we have reached our expectation through the orbital correction," said Wang Yejun, the BACC's chief engineer.

Chang'e-1 now is ...

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