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Shenzhou 20
Shenzhou 20 () is a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station launched on 24 April 2025. It carries three taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission is the 15th crewed Chinese spaceflight and the 20th flight overall of the Shenzhou program. Background Shenzhou 20 was launched on 24 April 2025, prior to the end of the previous mission, Shenzhou 19. It is the ninth flight to the Tiangong space station, and is expected to last approximately six months. It will depart following the arrival of the Shenzhou 21 crew in late 2025. Mission The mission was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC; also known as Shuangchengzi Missile Test Center; Launch Complex B2; formally Northwest Comprehensive Missile Testing Facility (); Base 20; 63600 Unit) is a Chinese space vehicle launch facility ( spacep ... on board a Long March 2F rocket. The Shenzhou spacecraft docked with the nadir docking port on the ''Tianhe'' core ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiangong Space Station
Tiangong (), officially the ''Tiangong'' space station (), is a permanently crewed space station constructed by China and operated by China Manned Space Agency. Tiangong is a modular design, with modules docked together while in low Earth orbit, between above the surface. It is China's first long-term space station, part of the Tiangong program and the core of the "Third Step" of the China Manned Space Program; it has a pressurised volume of 340 m3 (12,000 cu ft), slightly over one third the size of the International Space Station. The space station aims to provide opportunities for space-based experiments and a platform for building capacity for scientific and technological innovation. The construction of the station is based on the experience gained from its precursors, Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2. The first module, the ''Tianhe core module, Tianhe'' ("Harmony of the Heavens") core module, was launched on 29 April 2021. This was followed by multiple crewed and uncrewed miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low Earth Orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an geocentric orbit, orbit around Earth with a orbital period, period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an orbital eccentricity, eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial objects in outer space are in LEO, peaking in number at an altitude around , while the farthest in LEO, before medium Earth orbit (MEO), have an altitude of 2,000 km, about one-third of the Earth radius, radius of Earth and near the beginning of the Van Allen radiation belt#Inner belt, inner Van Allen radiation belt. The term ''LEO region'' is used for the area of space below an altitude of (about one-third of Earth's radius). Objects in orbits that pass through this zone, even if they have an apogee further out or are sub-orbital spaceflight, sub-orbital, are carefully tracked since they present a collision risk to the many LEO satellites. No human spaceflights other than the lunar missions of the Apollo program (1968-1972) have gone beyond L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 In Spaceflight
Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record-breaking orbital launches (with at least 300 expected) and increased developments in lunar, Mars, and low-earth orbit exploration. Spaceflight in 2025 will include more private companies' launches, and reusable launch vehicles will be used. Private robotic landers, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services, CLPS Program have touched down with more to land as part of the Artemis program. Overview Astronomy and astrophysics Exploration of the Solar System AstroForge#Odin (Brokkr-2), AstroForge's Brokkr-2 was launched on 27 February 2025 to perform a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid and determine if the asteroid is metallic. The mission failed because of communication issues. China launched the Tianwen-2 (''ZhengHe'') asteroid sample-return and comet probe on 28 May 2025. It will rendezvous with near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa in mid-2026, attempt to collect samples, and return samples back to Earth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiangong Program
The Tiangong program () is China's space program to create a modular space station, comparable to Mir. This program is independent and unconnected to any other international space-active countries. The program is part of the China Manned Space Program that began in 1992. The core module of the Tiangong space station, the '' Tianhe'' ("Harmony of the Heavens") was finally launched on 29 April 2021 marking the start of the Tiangong Space program deployment. China launched its first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, on 29 September 2011. Following Tiangong-1, a more advanced space laboratory complete with cargo spacecraft, dubbed Tiangong-2, was launched on 15 September 2016. The first module of the 12 part new series of Tiangong space station launched on 29 April 2021. The project culminated with the Tiangong space station, which consists of a 22.6-ton core module and cargo transport craft, with two more major research modules launched in 2022. It supports three astronauts for l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenzhou Program
Shenzhou may refer to: * Shenzhou, or "Divine Land", one of the Chinese names of China * Shenzhou program, a crewed spaceflight initiative by the People's Republic of China * Shenzhou (spacecraft), spacecraft from China which first carried a Chinese astronaut into orbit in 2003 * 8256 Shenzhou, Main Belt asteroid * ''Shenzhou'' (album), an album by ambient musician Biosphere * Hasee, a Chinese computer company * USS ''Shenzhou,'' a Federation starship on '' Star Trek: Discovery'' Locations * Shenzhou City in Hebei, China * Shen Prefecture, a prefecture between the 6th and 20th centuries in modern Hebei, China See also * Shen Zhou (1427–1509), Ming dynasty painter * Zhou Shen (born 1992), Chinese singer {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 In China
Events in the year 2025 in China. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) – Xi Jinping * President – Xi Jinping * Premier – Li Qiang * Congress chairman – Zhao Leji * Consultative Conference chairman – Wang Huning * Vice President – Han Zheng * Supervision Commission director – Liu Jinguo Events January * 2 January – A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Ningxia, injuring six people. * 4 January – Eight people are killed in a fire at a market in Zhangjiakou, Hebei. * 7 January – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Tibet, killing at least 126 people. * 20 January – **Fan Weiqiu is executed for committing the 2024 Zhuhai car attack. **Xu Jiajin is executed for committing the 2024 Wuxi stabbing attack. * 22 January – A truck rams into 12 vehicles in Bazhong, Sichuan, killing five people. February * 1 February – US President Donald Trump imposes a 10% tariff on imports from China. * 3 February – China imposes expo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xinhuanet
Xinhuanet is a state media company controlled by Xinhua News Agency. Headquartered in Beijing, it operates more than 30 local channels distributed across China and manages more than ten sub-websites of Xinhua News Agency. The company is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. History The Xinhua website was established on November 7, 1997 and named the Xinhua News Agency Website with the URL: www.xinhua.org. In March 2000, it was renamed Xinhuanet. In July 2000, Xinhua Network Co., Ltd. was established and Xinhuanet used the new domain name www.xinhuanet.com. On December 12, 2000, Xinhuanet was approved to engage in news publishing business. On August 25, 2002, the second working floor of the Beijing Xidan Gaodeng Building was officially put into use. The total area of the website has reached more than 4,300 square meters, making it the largest Internet news publishing service platform of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2012, Xinhua launched a Uyghur language website. Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tianzhou 9
Tianzhou 9 () is the ninth mission of the Tianzhou-class uncrewed cargo spacecraft, and the eighth resupply mission to the Tiangong Space Station. Like previous Tianzhou missions, the spacecraft was launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan, China on a Long March 7 rocket. Mission history The Tianzhou 9 cargo resupply craft launched on 14 July 2025 at 21:34 UTC, docking with the Tiangong space station some three hours later on 15 July 2025 at 00:52 UTC. It serves to resupply the Shenzhou 20 Shenzhou 20 () is a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station launched on 24 April 2025. It carries three taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission is the 15th crewed Chinese spaceflight and the 20th flight overall of the ... mission, which is expected to return to Earth by November 2025. Payload The craft delivered nearly 6,500 kg of supplies including propellant, science experiments, crew necessities and two new spacesuits. Spacecraft Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astronaut
An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a List of human spaceflight programs, human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and space tourists. "Astronaut" technically applies to all human space travelers regardless of nationality. However, astronauts fielded by Russia or the Soviet Union are typically known instead as cosmonauts (from the Russian "kosmos" (космос), meaning "space", also borrowed from Greek ). Comparatively recent developments in crewed spaceflight made by China have led to the rise of the term taikonaut (from the Standard Chinese, Mandarin "tàikōng" (), meaning "space"), although its use is somewhat informal and its origin is unclear. In China, the People' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenzhou 21
Shenzhou 21 () is a planned Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, expected to launch in October 2025. It will carry three taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission will be the 16th crewed Chinese spaceflight and the 21st flight overall of the Shenzhou program. Background Shenzhou 21 is expected to launch in October 2025, prior to the end of the previous mission, Shenzhou 20. It will be the 10th flight to the Tiangong space station, and is expected to last approximately 6 months. It will depart following the arrival of the Shenzhou 22 crew in 2026. Mission The mission will launch from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on board a Long March 2F The Long March 2F ( ''Changzheng 2F''), also known as the CZ-2F, LM-2F and Shenjian (, "Divine Arrow"), is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket, part of the Long March 2 rocket family. Designed to launch crewed Shenzhou spacecraft, the Long March ... rocket. The Shenzhou spacecraft will dock with the forward dock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenzhou 19
Shenzhou 19 () was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station that was launched on 29 October 2024 and returned to Earth on 30 April 2025. It carried three crew members on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission was the 14th crewed Chinese spaceflight and the 19th flight overall of the Shenzhou program. Background Shenzhou 19 launched on 29 October 2024, prior to the end of the previous mission, Shenzhou 18. It was the eighth flight to the Tiangong space station and lasted approximately 6 months, departing after the arrival of the Shenzhou 20 crew on 24 April 2025. Mission The mission launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on board a Long March 2F rocket. The Shenzhou spacecraft docked with the forward docking port on the ''Tianhe'' core module of the station, where the crew entered and taken over operations from the departing crew of Shenzhou 18, who returned to Earth on 4 November. The crew are carrying out experiments to aid China's goal of landing a cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Manned Space Program
The China Manned Space Program (CMS; ), also known as Project 921 () is a space program developed by the People's Republic of China and run by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) under the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, designed to develop and enhance human spaceflight capabilities for China. It was approved on 21 September 1992 and has been in operation ever since. The ''CMS'' commander and director are currently Xu Xueqiang and Zhou Jianping respectively; the latter has held this position since 2006, after taking over from Wang Yongzhi, who served as the first director from 1992 to 2006. As one of the most complex programs within the Chinese space agency, CMS was split into "three steps": # Crewed spacecraft launch and return. # Space laboratory (with capabilities of extravehicular activities), spacecraft rendezvous and docking procedures. # Long-term modular space station. On 29 November 2022, with the launch and docking of '' Shenzh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
