October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... China put huge effort into perfecting docking techniques on the Shenzhou missions to the Tiangong-1 and -2 laboratories, with repeated...later in the 2020s and for cosmonauts to fly on the Shenzhou to Tiangong, an idea mooted but which has yet to ...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
...) and can carry four to six astronauts. China currently uses the less massive Shenzhou spacecraft for its journeys to LEO, however, Shenzhou is not without its limitations. Although developed and operated by China, Shenzou is based around...
17 June 2021
China's astronauts arrive at new space station
...module of the country's new space station. The Shenzhou-12 craft has "successfully docked with the forward port ...said the China Manned Space Agency, as state TV showed live footage. Shenzhou-12 is the third of 11 missions – four of which will be ...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... module of the China Space Station, the Tianzhou-II and Tianzhou-III cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou-XII and Shenzhou-XIII crewed spacecraft. The China Space Station has travelled stably in a near-circular orbit at an altitude...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... the USA and Russia, to develop its own human launch capability. The first manned Chinese spaceflight, Shenzhou 5, put astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit on a homegrown rocket and capsule in 2003. Four more human missions...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... survived but reproduced during the experiment, indicating very low stress levels to the animals. In 2011 on China’s Shenzhou-8 mission, German scientists flew a type of algae known as Euglenoidea together with snails as part of the Science...
