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Thank you, CTOnews.com netizens. Hello, rabbit, soft media new friend 1957189, Ishihara Limei happy clues delivery! CTOnews.com, 10 May, 21:22 today, the long March 7 Yao 7 carrier rocket carrying the Tianzhou 6 cargo spacecraft was ignited and launched from China's Wenchang space launch site. The Tianzhou 6 cargo spacecraft was successfully separated from the rocket and entered the scheduled orbit. The spacecraft's solar panels started work smoothly, and the launch was a complete success.

In the follow-up, the Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with the space station assembly in orbit. The Tianzhou 6 cargo spacecraft was loaded with materials such as Shenzhou 16 and Shenzhou 17 astronauts stationed in orbit, such as consumables, propellants, practical (test) testing devices, and so on. In order to improve the cargo transport capacity, the Tianzhou-6 cargo spaceship has been optimized and improved in this mission, and the launch demand of the cargo spacecraft has been optimized from 2 times a year to 3 times a year, effectively reducing the transportation cost.

Tianzhou-6 will be the first spacecraft to be greeted by the Shenzhou 15 astronauts in orbit, and has made optimization and improvement in improving the uplink carrying capacity of goods, reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and the application of domestic components. The overall length of the Tianzhou-6 cargo ship is 10.6 meters, with a total weight of 13.5 tons. The carrying capacity of the whole ship has increased from 6.9 tons to 7.4 tons, making it the strongest cargo ship in service in the world.

According to reports, the materials transported by Tianzhou 6 mainly include clothing, food, drinking water and so on. Among them, the weight of fresh fruit is about 70 kilograms, which is about twice the weight of the fruit carried by Tianzhou 5. These fruits will also guarantee the food needs of the Shenzhou 15 crew at the space station and the Shenzhou 16 crew that is about to enter the space station. It is reported that in the follow-up, it is also planned to go up the big refrigerator to protect fruit and frozen food, so as to eat fried steak in the sky.

When the space station is flying in space, it sometimes needs to adjust its attitude, which requires fuel consumption. Therefore, in addition to delivering supplies to the astronauts, the cargo spacecraft also has an important mission to add propellant to the space station. This time, Tianzhou-6 carried 1.75 tons of propellant, of which about 700 kilograms were to be replenished to the space station.

Tianzhou-6 also designed the xenon cylinders needed for the electric propulsion of the uplink space station, which are different from the general cargo packages, because the xenon cylinders are large in volume and weight. At the same time, Tianzhou-6 also carried a new type of lidar, Lianli satellite and supercritical flow load and other three cargo spacecraft experimental projects.

The launch mission of Tianzhou-6 is carried out by the long March 7 Yao-7 carrier rocket. Prior to this, the Chang-7 carrier rocket has carried out five Tianzhou spacecraft launch missions, and its stability and reliability are guaranteed. In the previous technical accumulation, the Chang Seven Yao Seven launch vehicle further optimized the engine system and enhanced the structural reliability.

According to CTOnews.com, Tianzhou-6 is the first of three missions planned to launch to the Tiangong space station in 2023. The other two are Shenzhou-16 and Shenzhou-17, which are expected to launch this month and October, respectively.

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