Chinese Spacecraft Launch Center Incident Left Six People With Serious Injuries

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover as part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, lifts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center in Hainan Province on July 23, 2020. NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images

Six people were badly injured and had to be taken to a hospital following a rocket launch in China earlier this year, according to an internal document obtained by The Epoch Times.

The incident occurred at Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center in Hainan Island after the launch of a rocket that carried an orbiter, lander, and rover bound for Mars at 12:41 p.m. local time on July 23.

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The document, obtained by a trusted source, was a summary report by Hainan’s emergency center to the provincial government detailing accidents it responded to in July this year.