<p>China's new large carrier rocket Long March-5B made its maiden flight on Tuesday, sending the trial version of the country's new-generation manned spaceship and a cargo return capsule for test into space, official media reported.</p>.<p>The white large rocket blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the coast of southern China's island province of Hainan at 6 p.m. (Beijing Time), state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).</p>.<p>About 488 seconds later, the experimental manned spacecraft with no crew, together with the test version of the cargo return capsule, separated with the rocket and entered the planned orbit.</p>.<p>The successful flight inaugurates the "third step" of China's manned space program, which is to construct a space station, CMSA said.</p>.<p>Specially developed for China's manned space program, Long March-5B will be mainly used to launch the modules of the space station, it said.</p>.<p>The Long March-5 integrates top space technologies, including non-toxic environmentally friendly fuel and a highly stable control system, state-run Global Times reported.</p>.<p>"After the launch of the Long March-5, China will launch a series of 20-ton rockets, including the Long March-5, 6 and 7," Wang Xiaojun, commander-in-chief of the Long March-7, told the daily.</p>.<p>The rocket will help carry the core module and experiment modules to China's space station.</p>.<p>China initiated the manned space program in 1992. Designed as the country's strongest carrier rocket, the Long March-5 has a payload capacity of 25 tonnes to low Earth orbit, or 14 tonnes to geostationary transfer orbit, an earlier Xinhua report said. </p>
<p>China's new large carrier rocket Long March-5B made its maiden flight on Tuesday, sending the trial version of the country's new-generation manned spaceship and a cargo return capsule for test into space, official media reported.</p>.<p>The white large rocket blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the coast of southern China's island province of Hainan at 6 p.m. (Beijing Time), state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).</p>.<p>About 488 seconds later, the experimental manned spacecraft with no crew, together with the test version of the cargo return capsule, separated with the rocket and entered the planned orbit.</p>.<p>The successful flight inaugurates the "third step" of China's manned space program, which is to construct a space station, CMSA said.</p>.<p>Specially developed for China's manned space program, Long March-5B will be mainly used to launch the modules of the space station, it said.</p>.<p>The Long March-5 integrates top space technologies, including non-toxic environmentally friendly fuel and a highly stable control system, state-run Global Times reported.</p>.<p>"After the launch of the Long March-5, China will launch a series of 20-ton rockets, including the Long March-5, 6 and 7," Wang Xiaojun, commander-in-chief of the Long March-7, told the daily.</p>.<p>The rocket will help carry the core module and experiment modules to China's space station.</p>.<p>China initiated the manned space program in 1992. Designed as the country's strongest carrier rocket, the Long March-5 has a payload capacity of 25 tonnes to low Earth orbit, or 14 tonnes to geostationary transfer orbit, an earlier Xinhua report said. </p>