What was the third country to put a spacecraft into orbit and then recover it
Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site 5 scheduled for July 2, 2017 failed to complete its mission to put a seven-tonne Shijian-18 communications satellite into orbit approximately 1 hour after lift off at 11:23 GMT. Adding propellant started on June 1, 2017. The rocket had arrived at the base in early May where it was assembled and tested. The launch was broadcast live on television. Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site (), located in Wenchang, Hainan, China. It is one of the two spacecraft launch sites of Xichang Satellite Launch Center (the other site is in Xichang). It is a former sub-orbital test center.
Nozomi (spacecraft) field, the penetration of the solar-wind magnetic field, the structure of the magnetosphere, and dust in the upper atmosphere and in orbit around Mars. The mission would have also returned images of Mars' surface. After launch on the third M-V launch vehicle, "Nozomi" was put into an elliptical geocentric parking orbit with a perigee of 340 km and an apogee of 400,000 km. The spacecraft used a lunar swingby on September 24, 1998, and another on December 18, 1998, to increase the apogee of its orbit. It flew by Earth on December 20, 1998, at a perigee of about 1000