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Recovery teams start searching for rocket black box
2005-10-11 20:46:30 Xinhua English

JIUQUAN, Oct. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Recovery teams began to search for the rocket's black box and disengaged parts when the rocket and spacecraft separated minutes after the launch of China's second manned space mission in northwest China Wednesday morning.

Nearly 10 minutes after the launch of Shenzhou-6 spacecraft at 9:00 a.m., the Long March II F rocket carried the capsule into apreset orbit and ended its mission in the flight.

The escape tower, boosters and fairing of the rocket dropped tofour sites in a strip ranging about 800 km that covers Badain Jaran Desert of Inner Mongolia in north China and Yulin of theShaanxi Province in northwest China.

"One of our major tasks is to find the rocket's magnetic recorder," said Zhu Yabin, head of a land emergency rescue team. Magnetic recorder, or "black box", is crucial to retrieve datathat telemetry fails to obtain.

The black box fell to Otog Qi in Inner Mongolia with the rocketbody when the rocket performed stage one and stage two separation. According to Zhu, the black box will be used for statistics analysis.

Wreckage of the rockets will be exploded on site or sent back to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to destroy.

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