China's Space Program News Thread

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A few more...

 

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A few more wouldn't hurt. All images are high-resolution.

 

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[Temstar]

Shenzhou-14 crew watching the launch stream

Yes, that's exactly the same expression I have when I watch live shipping update for my packages

 

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[Overbom]

Anyone knows when the first scientific experiments will be installed?

I remember hearing that it would host some European experiments as well

 

[taxiya]

Long time ago there were statements that new Wentian arm will be combined to existed one, creating single extended arm... I doubt they would sacrifice that much weight and engineering for just single usage.

You are talking about another arm. This is placed on the side of the module.

eprash's question was about this arm at the docking end of the module.


The two arms have different locking interfaces, not compatible with one another, see the blue circled head. This locking head is "single usage".

The red circled device MAY be a attachment interface that can be used by the 1st arm. That is only a maybe because it does not resemble the other locking port on the core module. Even it is, the "lyappa" arm itself is almost certain to be fixed in position for most of its live.

 

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I got it now, i didnt know it has 2 arms.
Any news about Wentian rendezvous with css? According to some articles after launch, it supposed to rendezvous several hours fter launch. Still no any news about that?