China carried out a record-breaking 25 space launch missions in the first half of the year, with no failure, indicating a steady progress in building up the country’s spaceflight capabilities.<\/p>\n
The space launch missions included sending a new crew to the orbiting Tiangong space station, adding new satellites to the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, and launching record-setting number of satellites on a single rocket.<\/p>\n
On May 30, the Shenzhou-16 crew was sent into space. Over the past month, the crew members have been working in the space station as planned for the phase of application and development.<\/p>\n
The Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship went through the replacement of more than 100 parts and improved reliability tests, and has become more intelligent than the previous Shenzhou craft.<\/p>\n
China has also launched more than 100 communication, remote sensing and navigation satellites in the January-June period.<\/p>\n
On June 7, China successfully launched a Lijian-1 Y2 carrier rocket with 26 satellites onboard, setting a domestic record for a largest number of satellites lifted in one go.<\/p>\n
Just eight days later, a Long March-2D rocket blasted off, placing 41 satellites in orbit.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the country is seeing more and more commercial space launches.<\/p>\n
Following the successful launch of the Kuaizhou-1A, CERES-1 Y5, SQX-1 and TL-2 Y1 commercial carrier rockets in the first half of the year, the Tianmu-1 meteorological constellation and the Jilin-1, China’s first commercial constellation, have taken shape.<\/p>\n
Currently, China has more than 350 commercial satellites orbiting in space.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a batch of innovation-driven aerospace projects is also gather pace.<\/p>\n
From January to June, Asia’s largest test stand for high-thrust liquid rocket engines was delivered, the main engine for China’s manned lunar landing mission completed a 3,300-second test run, and the research and development of a new generation of manned spaceship, moon lander, and spacesuit for lunar exploration fully kicked off.<\/p>\n
In the second half of the year, China will launch the Shenzhou-17 manned spaceship, a new generation of ocean color observation satellites, the FY-3 06 Satellite and other spacecraft.<\/p>\n
The total number of China’s space missions this year will be nearly 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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