{"id":3442,"date":"2022-12-01T09:26:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T09:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-to-launch-shenzhou-15-manned-spaceship-on-nov-29\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T09:26:49","slug":"china-to-launch-shenzhou-15-manned-spaceship-on-nov-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-to-launch-shenzhou-15-manned-spaceship-on-nov-29\/","title":{"rendered":"China to launch Shenzhou-15 manned spaceship on Nov. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >The Shenzhou-15 crewed spaceship will be launched at 11:08 p.m. Tuesday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, announced the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p >The spaceship will take three astronauts &#8212; Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu &#8212; to carry out the Shenzhou-15 spaceflight mission. Fei will be the commander, said Ji Qiming, assistant to the director of the CMSA, at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p >The crew will stay in orbit for about six months.<\/p>\n<p >The launch will be carried out with a Long March-2F carrier rocket, which will be filled with propellant soon, Ji said.<\/p>\n<p >According to him, after entering orbit, the Shenzhou-15 spaceship will make a fast, automated rendezvous and dock with the front port of the space station&#8217;s core module, Tianhe.<\/p>\n<p >The space station will then be expanded to its largest configuration with three modules and three spaceships, having a total mass of nearly 100 tonnes, Ji said.<\/p>\n<p >During their stay in orbit, the Shenzhou-15 crew will witness the arrival of the Tianzhou-6 cargo craft and Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship. They will also have a work handover with the Shenzhou-16 crew in orbit.<\/p>\n<p >The Shenzhou-15 astronauts will return to the ground in May next year according to the plan, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shenzhou-15 crewed spaceship will be launched at 11:08 p.m. Tuesday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, announced the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Monday. The spaceship will take three astronauts &#8212; Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu &#8212; to carry out the Shenzhou-15 spaceflight mission. Fei will [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442"}],"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=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}