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On CNSA –China National Space Administration    …. ChangZheng  Long March 12 first flight rocket joint rehearsal…. At  Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center. Wenchang, Hainan Province, China, People’s Republic of China  At 7:00 a.m Beijing time . on October 8th 2024 .. , the joint rehearsal mission execution team had assembled in the Sanping factory. At the pre-shift meeting for the rocket joint rehearsal, General Dispatcher Cao Guobin was arranging various tasks in detail. At 8:00, the rocket was placed on the long rocket transport vehicle to prepare for the first joint rehearsal mission after the National Day. At 8:30, as the rocket slowly drove into the No. 2 launch station in the launch area, a new space journey will begin again……rocket with a diameter of 3.8 meters among the “Long March” rockets.

China’s most powerful single-core rocket for low-orbit transport…

The Long March 12 (LM-12/CZ-12) is a new generation of carrier rocket developed by the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is a medium-sized cryogenic liquid carrier rocket with a two-stage tandem configuration. The first and second stages are all powered by liquid oxygen-kerosene engines. The rocket was originally the Eighth Academy’s bid for a new generation of manned carrier rockets, and was later renamed XLV20. The original 5CBC configuration (5 cores in parallel for the takeoff stage) was changed to a single core stage configuration.

The first stage of the Long March 12 is equipped with four YF-100K liquid oxygen/kerosene engines, using an oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle, using pump-back swing, supporting bidirectional swing of ±8 degrees, and a thrust adjustment range of 65%~105%. The sea level thrust of a single engine is about 128 tons (1250 kN), and the sea level specific impulse is 301.84 seconds. The second stage is equipped with two YF-115 liquid oxygen/kerosene engines, using an oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle, supporting bidirectional swing of ±4 degrees, a thrust adjustment range of 80%~100%, a vacuum thrust of about 18 tons (180 kN), and a vacuum specific impulse of about 342 seconds.

The Long March 12 rocket is 59 meters high, with a first and second stage diameter of 3.8 meters. It can be equipped with optional fairings with diameters of 4.2 meters and 5.2 meters. It has a takeoff mass of 433 tons and a maximum takeoff thrust of about 510 tons (5,000 kilonewtons). The rocket has a carrying capacity of no less than 10 tons in a low-Earth orbit (LEO) at an altitude of 300 kilometers and a carrying capacity of no less than 6 tons in a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 700 kilometers.

The Long March XII rocket is the first 3.8-meter-diameter model of the Long March rocket. It will also become China’s single-core-stage carrier rocket with the largest takeoff mass and the strongest low-orbit carrying capacity in service.

The first flight of the YF-100K engine!

On April 28, 2024, the YF-100K liquid oxygen-kerosene engine developed by the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation completed a four-engine parallel ignition test. The total thrust of the engine exceeded 500 tons. This was the first large-thrust liquid oxygen-kerosene engine four-engine parallel ignition test, and the four-engine parallel scheme was fully verified.

The YF-100K was born with the proposal of China’s manned lunar landing plan and the need to demonstrate the new generation of manned carrier rockets. It is based on the improvement and optimization of the YF-100. This engine is the main power of China’s new generation of manned carrier rocket “Long March 10”. It adopts pump back swing. Compared with the YF-100 in use, it has the advantages of small mass eccentricity, small swing envelope, and easy layout of swing components.

The maiden flight of the Long March 12 rocket is also the maiden flight of the YF-100K engine, which will test its performance in actual launches and accumulate flight samples for the main power of the Long March 10 takeoff stage. At the same time, the YF-100K will pave the way for the improvement and upgrading of the new generation of carrier rockets currently in service, such as the Long March 5, whose four boosters are equipped with a total of 8 YF-100 engines. By replacing them with the YF-100K engines with better performance, the rocket will further release its already powerful carrying capacity.

China’s Hainan commercial space launch site launches first rocket

It is expected that in August 2024, the Long March 12 (Yao-1) carrier rocket will carry out its maiden flight at the No. 2 station of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center in China, and China’s new generation of carrier rockets will welcome a new member. At the same time, this is also the first rocket launch of the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Center, which means that China’s first commercial space launch center has officially been put into use.

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At 17:27 on May 3rd Friday 2024  Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration, the Chang’e-6 probe was successfully launched by the Long March 5 Yao-8 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan Province,  China, People’s Republic of China., and accurately entered the Earth-moon transfer orbit. The launch mission was a complete success. The Chang’e-6 probe has embarked on the world’s first return journey for sampling from the far side of the moon. The pre-selected landing and sampling area is the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon.

About 37 minutes after the Long March 5 Yao-8 carrier rocket flew, the rocket separated, sending the Chang’e-6 probe directly into the predetermined Earth-moon transfer orbit with a perigee altitude of 200 kilometers and an apogee altitude of about 380,000 kilometers. The Chang’e-6 probe consists of an orbiter, returner, lander, and ascender. Subsequently, with the support of ground measurement and control and the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, the Chang’e-6 probe will undergo processes such as earth-moon transfer, near-moon braking, orbiting the moon, landing and descent, and soft landing on the lunar surface, and finally reach a pre-selected area on the far side of the moon. Collect lunar surface rock and soil samples, and conduct scientific exploration at the same time. After completing the sampling and packaging, the ascender will take off from the lunar surface, then carry out lunar orbit rendezvous and docking and transfer the samples to the returner; the returner will undergo processes such as moon-to-earth transfer, approaching the second cosmic speed and re-entering the earth, and finally carry precious Lunar samples returned to Earth.

During the filming break, an aerospace worker told me that once she went to the Xichang launch base to visit an old leader. When the satellite was being transferred from the factory to the rocket assembly, she saw the chief engineer of the satellite kissing the satellite deeply and running after him. Follow the satellite and take pictures all the way. I burst into tears at that time…
The launch of each satellite is like a child bidding farewell to his homeland, embarking on a journey alone with no return, bidding farewell to Mother Earth, and rushing to the unknown and vast universe!


At that moment, I realized how affectionate, tender, sentimental, and heroic this undertaking is, like the sky, like the ocean, like the storm, like the boiling rain of time…
Chang’e-6 was successfully launched! Move forward with a heavy load and pay tribute to China Aerospace!

朱洁静Zhu Jiejing, born on October 3, 1985 in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, is a classical dancer in Mainland China. She graduated from Shanghai Dance School and Shanghai Theater Academy .

In 2001, she joined the Oriental Youth Dance Company and officially became a dancer . In 2002, she won the 3rd Chinese Dance “Lotus Award” Performance Gold Award and the Contemporary Dance Outstanding Performance Award for his dance “The Carving of Roots” . In 2004, the dance drama “Farewell My Concubine” performed won the gold medal for dance drama at the 4th Chinese Dance “Lotus Award”. In 2007, he won the “Audience’s Favorite Actor Award” at the 8th China Art Festival . In 2008,she was awarded the title of Principal Actor by the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe ; In the same year, he was rated as a national first-class actor. Since 2009, she has won the Chinese Dance “Lotus Award” performance gold medal for three consecutive times. In 2012, the dance poem ” Red Clouds in the Sky ” starring in the lead role won the 12th “Five One Project” Award for Spiritual Civilization Construction. In 2014, she was awarded the honorary title of “National Model of Artistic Ethics” . In 2015, she was awarded the title of “Advanced Worker in the National Cultural System”.

In 2016, the dance drama ” Crested Ibis ” starring in the starring role won the Dance Drama Award at the 10th Chinese Dance “Lotus Award” . In 2018, she won the “ National May Day Labor Medal ” ; In the same year ,she was promoted to the title of chief artist of Rongdian . In 2019, the original dance drama ” The Eternal Wave ” starring in the lead role won the 15th “Five One Project” Award for Spiritual Civilization Construction and the “Cultural Grand Prize” of the 16th China Culture and Art Government Award. In 2020, she won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 30th Shanghai Magnolia Drama and Performing Arts Awards ; starting in the same year, she participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for two consecutive years . In 2022, he was awarded the honorary title of ” 2022 Boao Youth Leader “. In 2023, she performed the dance ” Dingbu Bridge ” at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and was later named the ” National March 8th Red Flag Bearer “. In 2024,she won the Protagonist Award at the 32nd Shanghai Magnolia Theater and Performing Arts Awards .

 [大中国 ….Only this Chang’e! Take you to the moon romantically in 3 minutes]

 On May 3, the Chang’e-6 probe began the world’s first sample return trip to the far side of the moon. The entire flight process lasted about 53 days, including the launch into orbit section, the Earth-moon transfer section, and the near-lunar system. It consists of 11 flight stages including the moving section. The road to chasing the moon never stops. The successful launch of Chang’e-6 will not only promote the development of our country’s lunar exploration project, but also promote the development of human space exploration. Click on the video to experience the romantic flight to the moon in the eyes of Takionauts.

风 brave strive to be the first to be more brilliant

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At 17:27 on May 3rd Friday 2024  Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration, the Chang’e-6 probe was successfully launched by the Long March 5 Yao-8 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan Province,  China, People’s Republic of China., and accurately entered the Earth-moon transfer orbit. The launch mission was a complete success. The Chang’e-6 probe has embarked on the world’s first return journey for sampling from the far side of the moon. The pre-selected landing and sampling area is the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon.

About 37 minutes after the Long March 5 Yao-8 carrier rocket flew, the rocket separated, sending the Chang’e-6 probe directly into the predetermined Earth-moon transfer orbit with a perigee altitude of 200 kilometers and an apogee altitude of about 380,000 kilometers. The Chang’e-6 probe consists of an orbiter, returner, lander, and ascender. Subsequently, with the support of ground measurement and control and the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, the Chang’e-6 probe will undergo processes such as earth-moon transfer, near-moon braking, orbiting the moon, landing and descent, and soft landing on the lunar surface, and finally reach a pre-selected area on the far side of the moon. Collect lunar surface rock and soil samples, and conduct scientific exploration at the same time. After completing the sampling and packaging, the ascender will take off from the lunar surface, then carry out lunar orbit rendezvous and docking and transfer the samples to the returner; the returner will undergo processes such as moon-to-earth transfer, approaching the second cosmic speed and re-entering the earth, and finally carry precious Lunar samples returned to Earth.

According to reports, the entire process from launch to sample return of the Chang’e-6 mission takes about 53 days. The mission cycle is long, there are many engineering innovations, high risks and difficulties, and each stage is interlocked. Compared with the Chang’e-5 mission that achieved sample return from the front side of the moon in 2020, the Chang’e-6 mission needs to implement the first sample return from the far side of the moon with the support of the Queqiao-2 relay star, breaking through the lunar retrograde orbit design and control, and intelligent and rapid lunar backside Key technologies such as sampling and lunar take-off and ascent. At the same time, the Chang’e-6 mission will carry out scientific explorations such as on-site investigation and analysis of the landing area on the back of the moon, laboratory analysis and research of lunar samples, and deepen the study of the formation and evolution history of the moon.

In addition, the Chang’e-6 mission has carried out pragmatic international cooperation. In April 2019, the National Space Administration released the “Announcement on International Payload Cooperation Opportunities for the Chang’e-6 Mission”. Through the collection and selection of proposals for two batches of international payload carrying projects, the ESA lunar surface negative ion analyzer, There are four international carrying projects including the French Lunar Radon Detector, the Italian Laser Corner Reflector, and the Pakistani CubeSat. Among them, the ESA Lunar Surface Negative Ion Analyzer will detect negative ions on the lunar surface and study the interaction mechanism between plasma and the lunar surface; the French Lunar Radon Detector aims to conduct in-situ detection of radon isotopes on the lunar surface and study volatilization The transmission and diffusion mechanism of objects in the lunar environment; the Italian laser corner reflector plans to use the positioning on the back of the moon to carry out joint ranging and positioning research with other lunar exploration missions; the Pakistani CubeSat will carry out an on-orbit imaging mission to verify the NanoSatelllites moon Orbit detection technology.

On May 3, the CNSA- China National Space Administration held a Chang’e-6 international payload seminar in Haikou. About 50 international friends from 12 national space agencies, embassies in China, including Pakistan, France, and Italy, as well as international organizations such as the United Nations and ESA, gathered in Hainan to discuss cooperation and witness the launch of the Chang’e-6 mission.

The Long March 5 launch vehicle is my country’s first new-generation high-thrust launch vehicle with a core diameter of 5 meters. It has a total length of about 57 meters, a take-off weight of about 870 tons, a take-off thrust of more than 1,000 tons, and a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity of up to 25 tons. The geosynchronous orbit has a carrying capacity of up to 14 tons and completed its first flight in 2016. Due to the constant changes in the relative position of the Earth and the Moon, in order to ensure that the rocket is launched on time, the model team applied the “narrow window multi-orbit” launch technology and designed a total of 10 lunar orbits for the rocket within a 50-minute window for two consecutive days. Improve implementation launch probability and reliability. At the same time, the development team continued to optimize the launch site process, reducing the time it took to launch Chang’e-5 from nearly 60 days to 43 days. This is the 519th launch of the Long March series of launch vehicles.

The lunar exploration project is organized and implemented under the leadership of the National Space Administration. For this Chang’e-6 mission, the overall project was undertaken by the Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center of the National Space Administration; the detector and launch vehicle were developed by the Space Technology Research Institute and Launch Vehicle Technology Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation respectively; the launch The measurement, control and recovery work is jointly completed by China Wenchang Space Launch Site, Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center, Xi’an Satellite Measurement and Control Center, Yuanwang Survey Ship, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and other units; the ground application system is mainly undertaken by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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On the 15 March 2024 Hour Hong- Kong SAR – Beijing time CNSA –China National Space Administration   ….. the “Chang Zheng -Long March 5” Yao-8 carrier rocket which will carry out the Chang’e-6 mission of the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project, safely arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China. Subsequently, the rocket will be assembled and tested at the launch site together with the Chang’e-6 probe that arrived in advance. Currently, all participating systems in the launch site area are preparing for the Chang’e-6 mission as planned…..

“Chang Zheng -Long March 5” Yao-8 carrier rocket which will carry out the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project嫦娥六号was safely transported to the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China. Subsequently, the rocket will be assembled and tested at the launch site together with the Chang’e-6 probe that arrived in advance. Currently, all participating systems in the launch site area….

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On the week of coming on the 10th February 2023 CMS China Manned SpaceCNSA-China National Space Administration  the crew of the Shenzhou 15 of the Tiangong-China Space Station is first spacewalk, EVA for the year of the Rabbit, in which The Takionaut crew of Shenzhou 15 to perform the first out-of-vehicle activity.

At 00:16 on February 10th, 2023, Hong Kong SAR Beijing time, after about 7 hours of extravehicular activities, Shenzhou 15 Takionauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu worked closely together to successfully complete the mission. Complete all the scheduled tasks for the out-of-vehicle activities. At present, astronaut Fei Junlong and astronaut Zhang Lu have safely returned to the Wentian experimental module, and the out-of-cabin activity has been a complete success.



During the Takionauts ‘ out-of-vehicle activities, tasks such as the installation of the Mengtian extra-cabin expansion pump set were completed, and the whole process went smoothly and successfully. This is the first time for Takionauts to go out of the cabin after the completion of the Chinese space station. Takionauts Fei Junlong and Takionauts Zhang Lu walked in space for the first time, and once again successfully realized their dreams. According to the plan, in the future, the astronaut crew will carry out several out-of-cabin activities.


After About 7 hours of out-of-vehicle activities, 神州十五 Takionauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu worked closely together to successfully complete all the scheduled tasks for the out-of-vehicle activities. At present, astronaut Fei Junlong (wearing a red striped extravehicular suit) and Takionauts Zhang Lu (wearing a blue striped extravehicular suit (have safely returned to the Wentian experimental cabin, and the extravehicular activity has been a complete success, during the extravehicular….


In addition, the space station cargo out-of-cabin installation task has also been carried out in the early stage. At present, loads such as energy particle detectors and plasma in-situ imaging detectors have been installed out of the cabin, and the installation process of the loads outside the cabin and the functional performance of the cargo airlock and transfer mechanism of the space station have been fully verified.



According to reports, the space station’s cargo out-of-cabin installation task is coordinated by the load transfer mechanism, cargo airlock, inner and outer hatches, and robotic arms. Through on-orbit astronauts or ground operations, the cargo that needs to be out of the cabin will be sent out of the cabin. The goods outside the cabin can also be sent into the cabin. Breakthroughs and mastery of this key technology can greatly improve the efficiency of cargo exchange inside and outside the cabin, and reduce the number of astronauts leaving the cabin and workload. According to the plan, the installation of cargo out of the cabin will continue in the future.

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