China’s Shenzhou-15 spaceship with three astronauts on board efficiently docked with the nation’s house station on Wednesday, in line with the China Manned Area Company (CMSA).
The spaceship, launched atop a Lengthy March-2F Y15 service rocket on Tuesday evening, carried out a quick automated rendezvous and docked with the entrance port of the house station’s Tianhe module at 05:42 Wednesday (Beijing Time), mentioned the CMSA.
The entire course of took roughly 6.5 hours, the CMSA mentioned.
Afterwards, the Shenzhou-15 crew entered the Tianhe module and the astronaut trio of the Shenzhou-14 welcomed them upon their arrival.
It’s the first time that Chinese language astronauts aboard the house station have seen the go to of a crewed spaceship, in line with the CMSA.
The 2 groups will work collectively for a couple of week earlier than the Shenzhou-14 crew head again to Earth.
The three Shenzhou-15 crew members are Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu. They may keep on the house station for six months.
The Shenzhou-15 mission is the final step for the development part of the China Area Station (CSS), marking the primary crew handover within the newly accomplished three-module house station.
With the arrival of the Shenzhou-15 spaceship, the CSS has expanded to its largest configuration of three modules and three spaceships, with a complete mass of practically 100 tons.
