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The mission launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on board a Long March 2F rocket on 25 April 2024 at 12:59:00 UTC (20:59 China Standard Time), near the end of the Shenzhou 17 mission. Approximately 6.5 hours after launch, the spacecraft docked at the nadir port of the station's Tianhe core module .
Tianzhou 8 was launched on November 15, 2024, successfully docking with Tiangong after a three-hour flight. [3]Like all Tianzhou craft since Tianzhou 6, Tianzhou 8 is expected to stay docked to Tiangong for around 9 months before deorbiting to make room for the next supply mission.
Shenzhou 19 launched on 29 October 2024, prior to the end of the previous mission, Shenzhou 18. It is the 8th flight to the Tiangong space station , and is expected to last approximately 6 months. It will depart following the arrival of the Shenzhou 20 crew in 2025.
The launch is part of SSST's "Thousand Sails Constellation" plan, also known as the "G60 Starlink Plan", which began last year and aims to deploy more than 15,000 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.
T-minus 5 minutes. Watch an animation of today’s Starship flight. 13:41, Anthony Cuthbertson. SpaceX has shared an animation showing the route its Starship rocket should take if all goes well today.
China's Orienspace's Gravity-1 rocket completed its successful maiden flight on 11 January 2024, debuting on a new mobile sea platform in the Yellow Sea while breaking records as both the world's largest solid-fuel carrier rocket and China's most powerful commercial launch vehicle to date (as of early 2024).
April 28, 2024 at 11:23 PM. ... This week, China is expected to launch Chang'e-6 using the backup spacecraft from the 2020 mission, and collect soil and rocks from the side of the moon that ...
On 6 August 2024 at 06:42 UTC, China launched its first set of eighteen flat panel satellites associated with the project using the Long March 6A launch vehicle, China's 35th orbital launch in the year 2024. The rocket launched from the Taiyuan Launch Complex located in the north of Shanxi Province, and brought the satellites into a polar orbit.