China's Shenzhou-12 crewed spacecraft docks with space station module

Published on 17 Jun 2021 9:16:57 PM

The Shenzhou-12 spaceship launched from Jiuquan in China’s Gansu province on Thursday morning successfully docked with the Chinese space station core module Tianhe in orbit on the same day.

After entering the orbit, the spacecraft conducted a fast autonomous rendezvous and docked with the front docking port of Tianhe at 3.54pm. The process took approximately 6.5 hours to complete.

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