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JIUQUAN, Gansu, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Recovery teams are combing a vast area,
looking for the debris and "black box" of the Long March CZ-2F rocket that just
put China's first manned spacecraft into orbit Wednesday.
During a 10-minute flight, the rocket completed its mission by jettisoning
the escape tower and the boosters, separation of the first and second stages of
the rocket, and jettisoning of the fairing.
These debris are scheduled to scatter in an area ranging from the Badain
Jaran Desert in Inner Mongolia to Yulin Prefecture in Shanxi Province in north
China. The route is about 800 kilometers in length.
"One of the main jobs for us is to find the magnetic recorder,"said Ma
Bingqi, head of the emergency rescue brigade. Also known as the "black box", the
recorder keeps the in-flight data that ground monitoring stations cannot obtain.
The black box was attached to the first stage of the CZ-2F rocket and is
expected to be found somewhare near Otog Banner of Inner Mongolia. Enditem
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