The Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft launched on Saturday morning has docked with the Chinese Space Station around noon, setting a world record for the fastest rendezvous and docking operations between two spacecraft. China’s cargo spacecraft Tianzhou5, delivering supplies for the space station, conducted a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the combination of the space…
The Shenzhou-14 crew currently on board the Chinese space station has successfully entered the brand-new Mengtian lab module. Unlike the Wentian lab module, Mengtian doesn’t have a sleeping cabin for the astronauts, but it comes with more experiment cabinets instead. The Shenzhou-14 taikonauts will have a lot to unpack in the next couple of days.
Another private satellite has detected and sent images of a Chinese spacecraft stalling, capturing another spacecraft and launching it into the deadly orbit of a spacecraft 300 km away. The Chinese spacecraft SJ21 captured another stationary satellite, the Compass G2, and destroyed its orbit. The incident took place on January 22 Elon Musk fills space…
Mars landing, Space Station 2021, China has carried out 55 space launch missions in 2021. It is first in the world, says the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Among the missions, 48 launches were conducted by the Long March series carrier rockets, all successful. The missions also included four launches by the Kuaizhou-1A carrier…
Wang Yaping, who is from Yantai, Shandong E China, will be the first female astronaut to set foot on China’s space station, and will become the first Chinese female astronaut to leave footprints in the universe. She will also give a lesson while in orbit as what she did 8 years ago.
