The Soyuz MS-22 sprung a coolant leak while still attached to the International Space Station (ISS) on 14 December. Soyuz MS-22, which brought a crew of three to the ISS in September, is also the crew’s means of returning home. The leak, which spewed droplets of fluid...
On 4 December 2022 Shenzhou 14 with its three taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, aboard, left the Chinese Space Station (CSS), undocking from the Tianhe core module’s nadir port of the at 0430 GMT. The taikonauts had been onboard...
China launched a Long March 2F/G (CZ 2F/G) rocket carrying the Shenzhou-15 crewed mission to the CSS. The mission lifted-off at 1508 GMT on 29 November from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The three taikonauts onboard are Zhang Lu, Deng Qingming, and Fei...
During the period 15-17 November, astronauts, cosmonauts and taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) all took part in extra vehicular activity (EVA) on three spacewalks. Both the International Space Station (ISS) and the Chinese Space Station (Tiandong) were involved. On 15...
China launched the Tianzhou-5 resupply mission at 0203 GMT on 12 November. The freighter was propelled into orbit by a Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket lifting-off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island. Once placed into orbit the freighter conducted a two hour...
Having previously docked on 31 October 2022, on 3 November 2022 the Mengtian laboratory module has successfully finished transposition from axial to radial port of Chinese Space Station (CSS) via a robot arm. The station is now in its full T configuration. While the...
