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On the day of  28th May 2024   Hours Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration , China, People’s Republic of China At  Hong Kong SAR- Beijing Time  on April 25, 2024, Beijing time  Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew successfully completed its first extravehicular activity…. According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, at 18:58 Beijing time on May 28, 2024, after about 8.5 hours of extravehicular activities, the Shenzhou 18 crew Takionauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu worked closely together, with the support of the space station’s robotic arm and ground scientific researchers, to complete the installation of the space station’s space debris protection device, inspection of extravehicular equipment and facilities and other tasks. Takionauts Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu have safely returned to the Wentian laboratory module, and the extravehicular activity was a complete success. Astronaut Ye Guangfu walked in space again, and Takionaut Li Guangsu performed his first extravehicular activity mission.



According to the plan, a large number of scientific experiments and technical tests, as well as extravehicular activities of the astronaut crew and application payload extravehicular missions will be carried out during the Shenzhou 18 manned flight mission

The duration of the first EVA of the Shenzhou 18 crew was very close to the limit of the use of the EVA suit, and the EVA suit B also continued to break its own usage record. The theoretical service life of the second-generation Feitian EVA is 15 EVAs, and 13 have been completed so far. Will a new EVA suit be launched on the Tianzhou 8 cargo spacecraft mission in September this year..



Update on the use of extravehicular suits on the Chinese space station. As of now, the use of the three extravehicular suits on the space station is as follows:
Extravehicular suit A (red stripes), used 11 times, users: Liu Boming (1), Nie Haisheng (1), Zhai Zhigang (2), Fei Junlong (4), Tang Hongbo (2), Ye Guangfu (1);

Extravehicular suit B (blue stripes), used 13 times, users: Tang Hongbo (1), Liu Boming (1), Chen Dong (3), Zhang Lu (4), Jing Haipeng (1), Tang Shengjie (1), Jiang Xinlin (1), Li Guangsu (1);

Extravehicular suit C (yellow stripes), used 6 times, users: Wang Yaping (1), Ye Guangfu (1), Liu Yang (1), Cai Xuzhe (2), Zhu Yangzhu (1). Is it time to use extravehicular suit C, or do you want to use extravehicular suit B to

test the limits of the second-generation extravehicular suit…

On the 27th May 2024 Shenzhou 18 Takionaut Crew# will carry out its first extravehicular activity at an appropriate time in the near future …. Since successfully entering the space station complex on April 26, 2024 Beijing time, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew has been working and living in orbit for 32 days, and will carry out its first extravehicular activity at an appropriate time in the near future.

Since entering the space station, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew has completed the rotation with the Shenzhou 17 astronaut crew, space station platform maintenance and care, life and health protection, extravehicular space suit inspection and testing, and preparation for extravehicular activities. It has also conducted on-orbit training projects such as full-system pressure emergency drills and medical rescue drills. The various space science experimental (test) tasks it has undertaken have been steadily and steadily advanced, and the second extravehicular installation of the material extravehicular exposure experiment device has been completed as planned.

At present, the Shenzhou 18 Takionaut crew is in good condition, the space station complex is operating stably, and the conditions for carrying out extravehicular activities are in place

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Beijing Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. is the first domestic aerospace enterprise with mixed ownership, and it is also the target enterprise that Oriental Aerospace Port focuses on introducing. Relying on the scientific research strength and resource advantages of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Aerospace Flight Technology Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aerospace Science and Technology has been committed to the research and development and integration of space technology and aerospace vehicles as a platform for the transformation of major national scientific research projects, as well as the transformation and provision of technological achievements. Aerospace launch service. The Lijian-1 rocket project also adds a brand-new name card to the Oriental Space Port, which will surely promote the construction of the Oriental Space Port to take a solid step forward.

In 2028, take a trip to space! Come and experience the space tourism capsule first｜High-quality development research trip

[China Aerospace’s “space travel vehicle” will make its first flight in 2027, and manned space travel will be carried out in 2028]

 The space travel vehicle uses a combination of a single-stage rocket and a tourist cabin. The tourist cabin has 4 panoramic windows and can accommodate 7 passengers in a single flight.  Passengers. During the 10-minute flight, passengers will cross the Kármán Line at an altitude of 100 kilometers and experience the feeling of weightlessness that escapes the earth’s gravity for 3 minutes. Finally, the tourist capsule will land via parachute.

The project meets a 100-hour launch cycle each time, and the supporting aerospace theme park will have 10 space tourism aircraft on standby to perform space travel experiences in shifts. The landing site for aircraft launch and recovery will be planned and constructed in coordination with the aerospace theme park, space experience hall and aerospace science education base. Passengers will also receive short-term training in the park before flying.

With the development of China, People’s Republic of China aerospace technology, it is no longer a dream for the public to travel to space. On May 15, the 2024 “High-Quality Development Research Tour” Guangdong-themed interview event came to the Zhongke Aerospace Flight Technology Industrialization Base in Nansha District, Guangzhou. Here, reporters experienced a 1:1 replica of the space tourism capsule and learned that in 2028, passengers may be able to take a real rocket to sub orbit and experience the feeling of weightlessness.

According to the staff of Guangzhou Zhongke Aerospace Exploration Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Zhongke Aerospace”), the suborbital vehicle that will take passengers to space will use a combination of a single-stage rocket and a tourist cabin. The tourist cabin will have four panoramic windows. , can carry 7 passengers on a single flight. During the 10-minute flight, passengers will cross the Kármán Line at an altitude of 100 kilometers and experience the feeling of weightlessness that escapes the earth’s gravity for 3 minutes. Finally, the tourist capsule will land via parachute.

The project meets a 100-hour launch cycle each time, and the supporting aerospace theme park will have 10 space tourism aircraft on standby to perform space travel experiences in shifts. The landing site for aircraft launch and recovery will be planned and constructed in coordination with the aerospace theme park, space experience hall and aerospace science education base. Passengers will also receive short-term training in the park before flying.

According to the reporter’s understanding, with the continuous advancement of technology, the ticket prices for space travel will continue to decrease, giving the public the opportunity to travel in space.

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On the 30th  May 2023 clear 0931 Hours Morning Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time , the Belt and Road InitiativeCNSA –China National Space Administration from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center – Inner Mongolia –China – People’s Republic of China deployment of  the Chang Zheng – The Chang Zheng – Long March 2F Yao 16 –Shenzhou 16  carrier rocket.. On which Takionauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao took to the predetermined orbit. The first manned flight mission in the application and development stage was a complete success. The three astronauts will stay in the space station and “join up” with the crew of Shenzhou 15 to carry out on-orbit handover “face-to-face” meeting in which brings the total crew of six with a handover ceremony from Shenzhou 15 towards 16..

[ 空间站里的空间豆园 “Space Vegetable Farmer” is online]

On the week of  24th August 2023 on the Tiangong – China Space Station space farming above Planet Earth Orbit.. 400 kilometers away above, the Chinese people’s “vegetable-growing genes” are still well developed. On the small table in the interspace cabin of the space station, a “space vegetable garden” jointly cared for by scientific researchers and Takionauts is set up….

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长征十号 At 22nd  23rd July  2023 Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time , China- People’s Republic of China- CNSA –China National Space Administration   Successfully Carrier Rocket  engine tested for the New Next Generation Chang Zheng – Long March 10 Manned Lunar mission landing Carrier rocket freighter The main engine of China’s manned lunar landing rocket Long March 10 completed another ignition test run yesterday, which verified all the requirements of the rocket mission for the engine, and provided strong support for the solidification of the engine’s technical status, the establishment of product technology baselines, and the improvement of reliability.



The engine used in this test run uses advanced liquid oxygen kerosene as fuel, which is improved and iterated from the high-thrust liquid oxygen kerosene engine used by the new generation of launch vehicles such as the active Long March 5, with a thrust of 130 tons. (The Sixth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group)

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The reporter learned from China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd. on July 23 that the main engine of my country’s manned moon landing rocket was tested in the Fengzhou Test Area of ​​the Sixth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and achieved continuous success. This test run verified the engine flight mission profile, and provided strong support for the solidification of the engine technical state, the establishment of the product technical baseline, and the improvement of reliability.

The engine is the power source of the rocket, and its development process is very complicated. Test run is an important link in the engine development process, and there are dozens of types. In layman’s terms, engine test run is the process of igniting the engine and verifying the rationality of its design scheme and process reliability. This is an indispensable and important part of the development and delivery of a type 1 engine. It will run through all stages before and after engine development. Each stage of test run has different meanings, and the ignition time varies from a few seconds to hundreds of seconds.

It is reported that the engine used in this test run uses advanced liquid oxygen kerosene as fuel, which is improved and iterated from the high-thrust liquid oxygen kerosene engine used by the new generation of launch vehicles such as the Long March 5. The thrust reaches 130 tons. The R&D team of the Sixth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group adheres to the concept of digital design, and has successively overcome key technical problems such as engine start-up and shutdown sequence, engine wide-range continuously variable thrust, and engine long life and high reliability.

In addition, the continuous success of the test run has fully verified the reliability of a number of new carrying process technologies. The engine production of this test run adopts the concept of intelligent manufacturing, and actively applies new materials, new processes, and new technologies. The inner wall of the thrust chamber of the core component adopts a new protective coating, key assemblies adopt automatic welding technology, and a large number of components adopt 3D printing technology.

During the preparation of the engine test run, the participants in the research and test conducted tests and verifications on each subsystem of the test through comprehensive means such as digital modelling, simulation calculation, and system debugging. The successful test run shows that the test area has greatly improved the multi-station parallel test run capability and test efficiency by optimizing the workflow.

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On the 30th  May 2023 clear 0931 Hours Morning Hong Kong SAR- Beijing time , the Belt and Road InitiativeCNSA –China National Space Administration from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center – Inner Mongolia –China – People’s Republic of China deployment of  the Chang Zheng – The Chang Zheng – Long March 2F Yao 16 –Shenzhou 16  carrier rocket.. On which Takionauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao took to the predetermined orbit. The first manned flight mission in the application and development stage was a complete success. The three astronauts will stay in the space station and “join up” with the crew of Shenzhou 15 to carry out on-orbit handover “face-to-face” meeting in which brings the total crew of six with a handover ceremony from Shenzhou 15 towards 16..

At 21:40 on July 20, 2023, Shenzhou 16 Takionauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao worked closely together to successfully complete all the scheduled tasks for the out-of-vehicle activities. The three astronauts interacted frequently during the whole process of leaving the cabin, and easily completed the work of raising the three panoramic cameras outside the cabin.

​[The crew of Shenzhou 16 Takionauts successfully completed all the scheduled tasks for the out-of-vehicle activities]

According to the CNSA – China National Space Administration – China Manned Space Engineering Office, at 21:40 on July 20, 2023, Hong Kong SAR Beijing time, after about 8 hours of out-of-vehicle activities, Shenzhou 16 Takionauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao worked closely together, and with the support of the space station’s robotic arm, they successfully completed all the scheduled tasks for extravehicular activities. Takionauts Jing Haipeng and Zhu Yangzhu have safely returned to the space station. The experiment cabin and out-of-cabin activities were a complete success.

During the Takionauts ‘ out-of-vehicle activities, the installation and lifting of the in-orbit support for the panoramic camera B of the core module, and the unlocking and lifting of the panoramic cameras A and B of the dream capsule were completed. The whole process went smoothly and successfully. Takionauts Jing Haipeng, who has flown for four times, cooperated with the out-of-vehicle activity from the cabin of Shenzhou-7. With 15 years of perseverance, he realized the dream of “spacewalking”; astronaut Zhu Yangzhu became my country’s first out-of-vehicle activity Active Spaceflight Engineer.

According to the plan, in the future, the Takionauts crew will also carry out a large number of space science experiments (tests), and participate in the completion of multiple application load out-of-cabin installation tasks…

Shenzhou 16 Takionauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao worked closely together, and with the support of the space station’s robotic arm, they successfully completed all the scheduled tasks for the out-of-vehicle activities. Astronauts Jing Haipeng and Zhu Yangzhu have safely returned to the Wentian experimental module of the space station.
During the Takionauts ‘ out-of-vehicle activities, the installation and lifting of the in-orbit support for the panoramic camera B of the core module, and the unlocking and lifting of the panoramic cameras A and B of the dream capsule were completed. The whole process went smoothly and successfully.Takionauts Jing Haipeng, who has flown four times, cooperated from the Shenzhou 7 capsule to this extravehicular activity. With 15 years of perseverance, he realized the dream of “spacewalking”.
According to the plan, in the future, the astronaut crew will also carry out a large number of space science experiments (tests), and participate in the completion of multiple application load out-of-cabin installation tasks…..

The activity area of ​​this extravehicular activity covers multiple quadrants of the third cabin of the space station. The panoramic camera of the Tianhe cabin is different from the two experimental cabins. The panoramic camera of the experimental cabin has been optimized to simplify the lifting steps and save effort; the panoramic camera of the Tianhe cabin needs more steps to complete the lifting (for details, please refer to God The four out-of-vehicle activities of Twelve and God Thirteen, the process of raising the panoramic camera is introduced).

The long path between the operating areas and many quadrants involved also means that the Takionauts need to spend more time for transfer, which may be one of the reasons why the time spent on this extravehicular activity is close to the critical value of the extravehicular suit.

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