{"id":15155,"date":"2016-10-16T19:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T11:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/key-events-during-shenzhou-11s-ascent-to-orbit\/"},"modified":"2016-10-16T19:06:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T11:06:29","slug":"key-events-during-shenzhou-11s-ascent-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/key-events-during-shenzhou-11s-ascent-to-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Key events during Shenzhou 11\u2019s ascent to orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

It will take less than 10 minutes for a Long March 2F rocket to send two astronauts inside the Shenzhou 11 space capsule on course toward a docking with China\u2019s Tiangong 2 space lab.<\/p>\n

The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Jiuquan space center in northwestern China\u2019s Inner Mongolia territory at 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT), or around sunrise Monday at the launch site.<\/p>\n

Astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong will be aboard the Shenzhou 11 spaceship, beginning a 33-day mission in orbit.<\/p>\n

T-0:00:01: Ignition<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Long March 2F rocket\u2019s first stage and four liquid-fueled boosters ignite and throttle up to 1.4 million pounds of total thrust.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T-0:00:00: Liftoff<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) Long March 2F rocket lifts off from the Jiuquan satellite launching center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:00:12: Pitch and roll program<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Long March 2F rocket begins a pitch-over maneuver to steer on the proper heading toward orbit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:35: Escape tower jettison<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The launch abort system, which would be used by the crew to escape the Long March rocket in the event of a mishap, is jettisoned after it is no longer needed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:35: Booster separation<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Moments
Moments after the boosters drain their hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellant, the rockets are jettisoned from the Long March 2F first stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:40: First stage separation<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Long March 2F first stage separates about four seconds after the strap-on boosters are jettisoned. The second stage ignites moments later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:03:30: Fairing separation<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The aerodynamic shroud covering the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft is released once the Long March rocket flies out of the lower atmosphere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:08:45: Shenzhou 11 separation<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Shenzhou 11 spacecraft separates from the second stage of the Long March 2F rocket. The launch is targeting an orbit with an inclination of 42.8 degrees. Shenzhou 11\u2019s power-generating solar panels will be extended a few minutes later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It will take less than 10 minutes for a Long March 2F rocket to send two astronauts inside the Shenzhou 11 space capsule on course toward a docking with China\u2019s Tiangong 2 space lab. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Jiuquan space center in northwestern China\u2019s Inner Mongolia territory at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3528,135,1545,1555,1578,205,1579,329],"class_list":["post-15155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chen-dong","tag-china","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-jing-haipeng","tag-jiuquan","tag-long-march","tag-long-march-2f","tag-shenzhou"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}