China launched the Shanzhou-19 manned spacecraft with three taiconauts on board to the domestic orbital space station Tiangun (Heavenly Palace).
According to the Office of the Program of the piloted space flights of the PRC (CMSA), the Shanzhou-19 spacecraft with Tsai Suyzhe Taikonauts, Song Lindun and Van Haozza was launched from the cosmodrome of Zyucyan in the northwestern China with the help of a Changzhen-launch vehicle 2F “.
About 10 minutes after the start of the Shanzhou-19 spacecraft separated from the launch vehicle and reached the planned orbit.
It is expected that the crew will reach the space station in 6.5 hours. Taikonauts will accept the shift at the crew sent to the station on April 25 on the Shanzhou-18 ship and has been on it for 6 months.
The eighth crew of the Chinese space station Tiangun was headed by the 48-year-old commander Tsay Suyzhe, who had already visited the station in 2022 on board Shenzhou-14. The crew also went to a dream Lindun and Van Haozza, both born in 1990 and first participated in the manned mission. Previously, the Lindun dream served as a pilot in the air forces of China, and Van Haocze worked as an engineer in the Chinese corporation of aerospace science and technology.
Van is currently the only woman-border woman in China and the third Chinese woman who made a flight into space.
Chinese space station “Tiangun”
China created its own Space station “Tiangun” (“Heavenly Palace”) in the orbit of the Earth in response to the ban on US Cooperation in the field of space research and restrictions on China’s participation in the program of the International Space Station (ISS).
The station consists of the main module and two laboratory modules, and it is also planned to add a space telescope. It was built on the model of the Russian Space station “Mir”.
The main module “Tianhe” (“Heavenly Harmony”) was launched on April 29, 2021, the first laboratory module “Wennyan” (“desire for heaven”) – July 24, 2022, and the second laboratory module “Manchean” (“Dream. about heaven “) – October 31, 2022.
After adding laboratory modules to the main one, the design of the station “T” was completed, and it went into the stage of “implementation and development”. In addition, the plans are to add a space telescope called “Syntyan” (“Exploreation of Heaven”).
The crew of three Tyikonauts works at the rotation station, the staff is delivered to the station by Shanzhou ships (Holy Ship), and cargo supplies are carried out using Tianzhou ships (“Heavenly Ship”).