Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens grass Luo Yuzi and ZKSen for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, May 11. 21:22 last night, the long March 7 Yao Seven carrier rocket carrying the Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft was ignited and launched at the Wenchang space launch site in China. The Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft was successfully separated from the rocket.

After entering orbit, the Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft successfully completed its status setting and successfully docked at the space station sky and the rear port of the core module today. After the rendezvous and docking is completed, Tianzhou-6 will be transferred to the flight segment of the assembly. In the follow-up, the Shenzhou 15 astronauts will enter the Tianzhou 6 cargo spacecraft and carry out cargo transshipment and other related work as planned.

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, and the carrying capacity of the whole ship has increased from 6.9 tons to 7.4 tons, making it the cargo ship with the strongest transport capacity and the highest cargo ratio in active service in the world.

Tianzhou-6 carried three astronauts' daily necessities for 280 days, loaded nearly 260 pieces of cargo, added 700 kilograms of propellant upstream, and transported a total weight of about 5.8 tons. The cargo includes nearly 160 kilograms of space station electric propulsion xenon cylinder assembly, which is currently the heaviest single piece of cargo transported by a cargo spacecraft to the space station, which means that the spacecraft's ability to adapt to excess cargo continues to break through.

According to CTOnews.com, the mission, which took 7 hours and 54 minutes from launch to docking, is also the first of three missions planned to be launched 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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