Posted on 11/25/2025 12:09:29 AM PST by sockmonkey
Success! #Shenzhou22LaunchSuccess# ]
At 12:11 PM Beijing time on November 25, 2025, the Long March-2F Y22 carrier rocket carrying the #Shenzhou22# spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
Approximately 10 minutes later, the spacecraft successfully separated from the rocket and entered its predetermined orbit, marking a complete success for the launch mission. After entering orbit, the spacecraft will autonomously and rapidly rendezvous and dock with the space station assembly according to the predetermined procedures.
The Shenzhou-22 spacecraft is unmanned and carries space food, space medicine, fresh fruits and vegetables, a device for dealing with cracks in the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft's porthole, and spare parts required by the space station.
This mission is the 38th launch mission since the inception of China's manned space program and the 610th flight of the Long March series carrier rockets. It is also the first emergency launch mission of China's manned space program.
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Hope they can repair the cracks in that space ship or they are going to be one Sizzling Happy Family at reentry.
Instead of 'carry out' it's 'carry up'.
LOL I crack myself up.
Did they bring Tang, or is that the name of the astronaut?
-PJ
We might think we're funny by making fun of them, but they're the ones who are laughing all the way to the bank with our money.
One would hope!
The problem is, an hour later they needed to send more.
Our leaders killing business here with regulation and taxes and getting paid off to let their goods in here cheap.
As for those regulations, we offshored the gain of function research to Wuhan to get around regulations in 2015. How did that work out?
LOL.
The unmanned shenzou 22 is to bring them back. The capsule that was damaged (Shenzou 20) sustained the damage to its window from a piece of space debris the size of a fingernail. I find it amazing something that small could do such damage. I wish safety for all those who are involved in space exploration no matter what Country they are from.
A micrometeorite going fast enough could destroy a spacecraft.
An exploding satellite can cause unspeakable damage.
In fact, there's just too much crap up there. It would be nuts to go up into the ISS and be a sitting duck, with all that junk flying around.
Somehow, the government saying that it "tracks" all of it doesn't reassure me much.
And Musk launching thousands of satellites just so Third World people in the bush can download porn or order Harry and David's doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy the way he and the Geeks do.
People in the Third world need clean water, sewers, and roads. Not internet.
Not a problem that can be fixed by a space launch company. The real problem is the same as in the first world, massive corruption.
Mass * velocity == BOOM!
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The backup capsule has docked successfully. That was fast.
AWESOME! Thanks for the link to the calculator. Kinetic energy from super small objects, even subatomic ones, is absolutely amazing.
People have been digging wells by hand for millennia. Nothing new.
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