China's Space Program News Thread

[iantsai]

Into zero G orbit and solar panel unfolded:

 

[siegecrossbow]

Into zero G orbit and solar panel unfolded:
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Spaceships in orbit is not in zero g but in free fall. If it were truly zero g then they wouldn’t be orbiting the planet.

 

[iantsai]

Shenzhou-14 crew have opened their face masks.

The launching procedure is announced to be successful as scheduled.

Shenzhou-14 will dock to the Tiangong Space Station within 4 to six hours.

Yang Liwei is being interviewed. He is now the deputy chief designer of CMSEO.


Deng Xiaojun, Chief Commander of Shenzhou-14 launching mission:

 

[foxmulder]

Beautiful!!

 

[foxmulder]

8K is awesome!

 

[stannislas]

this is beautiful, can anyone identify the locations?

 

[escobar]

Well they better get the offensive weapon ready

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China must destroy Elon Musk's satellites with ‘hard kill’ weapon, say academics​

Gareth Corfield
Wed, May 25, 2022, 12:29 PM


China needs a “hard kill” weapon to destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, a state university with close links to the country’s communist regime has said.
Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications Technology called

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because of its “huge potential for military applications”.
Starlink is Elon Musk’s global connectivity project, consisting of thousands of satellites in a near-Earth orbit paired with ground terminals giving its users high speed internet access.
In a paper published in China’s Modern Defence Technology journal, the five-strong team of academics say Starlink could be used by the US military and called for China to develop weapons to destroy the internet connectivity network. The paper said: “It is necessary to further develop related technologies and form disposal capabilities.”

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[iantsai]

神舟十四号载人飞船采用自主快速交会对接模式，经过6次自主变轨，于北京时间2022年6月5日17时42分，成功对接于天和核心舱径向端口，整个对接过程历时约7小时。

按任务计划，3名航天员随后将从神舟十四号载人飞船进入天和核心舱。

Shenzhou-14 docked to the radial port of the Tianhe Core Module of the CSS at 17:42 UTC+8, June 5th, 2022 after six steps of maneuvers.

The crew will soon enter the Space station.



Now Tianzhou-3 cargo is docking to the fwd port and Tianzhou-4 is docking to the aft portand Shenzhou-14 at the radial port.

Next the Tianzhou-3 cargo will detach and descend and burn out in the atmosphere.

The Wentian Laboratory Module will be launched and dock to the fwd port first, then reattach to the starport side by the help or the mechanical arm in July.

The Mentian Laboratory Module will be launched and docked to fwd port --> port side port in October.

Then Tianzhou-5 will be launched and attach to the fwd port and Tianzhou-4 detach in November.

Then Shenzhou-15 will be launched in December and attach to the aft port before Shenzhou-14 return home.

This will form the max scale combination of the CSS ever before the new Core Stage launched. There will be six taikonauts on the station then.

 

[Strangelove]

Taikonauts, a recap...

 

[iantsai]

An overall construction flowchart of Tiangong Space Statiom (April 2021 to December 2022) by someone (author's name shown on the icon at the buttom left corner but it's too small to recognize):