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China's Shenzhou 17 astronauts arrive at Tiangong space station

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China's newest astronaut crew has arrived at its orbital destination. The three spaceflyers of the Shenzhou 17 mission reached China's Tiangong space station early Thursday morning (Oct. 26), just 6.5 hours or so after lifting off atop a Long March 2F rocket from the Gobi Desert.


The Shenzhou 17 crew consists of mission commander Tang Hongbo, 48, and former fighter pilots Tang Shengjie, 34, and Jiang Xinlin, 35. They're the youngest group ever to visit Tiangong, which China began assembling in low Earth orbit in April 2021 and finished about 18 months later.


The Shenzhou 17 astronauts will live aboard the orbiting lab for the next six months, performing a variety of scientific experiments and maintenance tasks. Among those anticipated jobs is a spacewalk designed to inspect and potentially repair Tiangong's solar arrays, which have suffered a few debris impacts and/or micrometeoroid strikes during their short orbital lives.


Currently, space debris is increasing, so the impacts of small space objects on long-duration operational spacecraft are inevitable. Previous inspection revealed that the space station's solar panels had also been hit several times by tiny objects in space, suffering minor damage, of course which was taken into account during their design.


Tiangong, which is about 20% as massive as the International Space Station, is a T-shaped structure consisting of three modules. Shenzhou 17 is the seventh crewed mission to make it to the Chinese outpost to date.





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