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Tianzhou 4 was sent into space atop a Long March 7 Y5 rocket from Wenchang Launch Base around 2am.

The launch is the first of six planned this year and will also carry supplies for materials science, space medicine and microgravity experiments.

China launched eight satellites on Thursday to boost commercial remote sensing services. This is the second launch within a week.

Local authorities want to brand the Wenchang Space Launch Site as China’s equivalent to the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex in Florida. But a sustainable tourism development plan is struggling to take flight.

Beijing-based team says its technology can connect satellites to beam six films a second coast-to-coast, from a device smaller than a suitcase.

China has already hinted that it is open to launching foreign astronauts to its under-construction space station. Russia wants to work together.

The Shenzhou-14 mission will launch in June, taking three Chinese astronauts on a six-month mission to its under-construction space station.

Astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu will return home after completing the longest space mission in China's history.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences is working on a mission that will look for an Earth-like planet with conditions to support life.

The Chinese space station has so far seen two crewed missions docking with astronauts living in microgravity and readying the flying outpost.