Tag: Jing Haipeng
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Live coverage: Three Chinese astronauts return to Earth
Live coverage of China’s Shenzhou 15 mission, a six-month expedition to the Chinese space station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”CCTV Live Landing Coverage”] [tabby title=”CCTV Undocking Replay”] [tabbyending]
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Shenzhou crew capsule brings home three Chinese astronauts
The Shenzhou 15 spacecraft descends toward landing under its main parachute. Credit: CCTV Three Chinese astronauts departed the Tiangong space station Saturday and landed in the remote Gobi Desert of northwestern China, capping a six-month expedition that included four spacewalks and a host of experiments in the microgravity environment of low Earth orbit. The three-man…
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Chinese astronaut launch breaks record for most people in orbit
A Long March 2F rocket climbs through the sky after lifting off from the Jiuquan launch base with the Shenzhou 16 astronauts. Credit: China Manned Space Agency The launch of the next crew to China’s Tiangong space station late Monday (U.S. time) added three astronauts to the population of humans in space, which reached a…
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Live coverage: China launches three-man crew to Tiangong space station
Live coverage of China’s Shenzhou 16 mission, a planned six-month expedition to the Chinese space station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”CCTV launch coverage (with English commentary)”] [tabbyending]
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Three astronauts ready for ride to China’s space station
Chinese space officials announced the identities of the Shenzhou 16 crew members just one day before their launch to the Tiangong space station. From left to right: Payload specialist Gui Haichao, commander Jing Haipeng, and spaceflight engineer Zhu Yangzhu. Credit: China Manned Space Agency The next three-man crew to live on China’s Tiangong space station…
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Two Chinese astronauts back on Earth
China’s spacecraft recovery team works around the Shenzhou 11 landing capsule Friday after its touchdown in Inner Mongolia. Credit: Xinhua Two Chinese astronauts closed out a month in space Friday with a parachute-assisted landing in northern China’s remote Inner Mongolia territory, a day after the crew departed the Tiangong 2 space lab to begin the…
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Chinese astronauts halfway through country’s longest space mission
The Banxing 2 satellite deployed from Tiangong 2 captured this view of the mini-space station from above. Credit: Xinhua/China Academy of Sciences/China Manned Space Engineering Office Two Chinese astronauts are busy with medical experiments and other duties as they near the halfway mark of a month-long stay aboard the Tiangong 2 space lab, according to…
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Chinese space lab deploys compact satellite for external surveys
This view of the Tiangong 2 and Shenzhou 11 docked complex was recorded Sunday and downlinked to Earth on Tuesday by the Banxing 2 micro-satellite. Credit: CCTV A companion satellite ejected from China’s orbiting Tiangong 2 research module has snapped unique views of the space lab as two astronauts inside press on with experiments and…
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Shenzhou 11 glides to orbital link-up with Chinese space lab
Updated after crew’s ingress of Tiangong 2. The Tiangong 2 space lab is pictured in this video frame from a camera aboard Shenzhou 11. The two spacecraft linked up on a night pass in orbit. Credit: CCTV Two days after blasting off on a Long March rocket, a Shenzhou spaceship carrying two Chinese astronauts linked…
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Chinese astronauts launch on month-long space mission
The Shenzhou 11 spacecraft lifted off at 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT) Sunday, or 7:30 a.m. Beijing time Monday. Credit: Xinhua Two Chinese military pilots rode a Long March 2F rocket into orbit Sunday, heading for the Tiangong 2 research lab to conduct experiments and practice procedures to be used on China’s future space station.…