BEIJING, KOMPAS.TV – China’s Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft successfully docked to the core module of the Tianhe space station on Thursday (17/6/2021), according to China’s Manned Space Agency. (China Manned Space Agency/CMSA) as reported Xinhua, Jum’at, (18/6/2021).
The spacecraft, which was launched on Thursday morning local time, completed setting orbital status after entering orbit and conducting a rendezvous or rendezvous and mooring or docking fast and automatic to the front docking port Tianhe at 15:54 Beijing Time (14:54 WIB), formed a three-module complex with the Tianzhou-2 cargo plane.
The whole process takes about 6.5 hours.
This is rendezvous and docking Tianhe’s first done with the Shenzhou spacecraft since it was sent into orbit on April 29.
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Using a Long March-2F carrier rocket, the spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, northwest China, at 09:22 Beijing Time (08:22 WIB).
Furthermore, according to the mission plan, the three astronauts serving in Shenzhou-12, namely Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo, will enter the Tianhe module.
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