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That's it for our rolling coverage of today's space launch from the Gobi Desert ... Ann Smith - who has used her time in the desert to check out China's Mars simulation base.

The Shenzhou 19 spacecraft has blasted off from the Gobi Desert in north-west China. The spacecraft is taking three taikonauts - China's word for astronauts - to the Tiangong space station.