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Tianzhou

Cargo Spacecraft

Tianzhou is the uncrewed cargo spacecraft of the China National Space Administration, developed to resupply Chinese space stations with fuel, equipment and other supplies. Its first flight, Tianzhou 1, launched in April 2017 and docked with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, and later Tianzhou vehicles have continued to resupply the larger Tiangong space station. The spacecraft is roughly comparable in role to Russia Progress and the commercial American Cygnus cargo spacecraft, and it can be deliberately deorbited to burn up in the atmosphere after its cargo is no longer needed.

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Spacecraft Type
Automated cargo spacecraft 1
Launch Date
2017-04-20 1
Status
Active 1
Status
Status (category)
Active 1
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Source Wikipedia - Tianzhou (spacecraft)

Operated By

Tianzhou is the China National Space Administration's uncrewed cargo spacecraft, resupplying the Tiangong space station.

Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Additional Source Wikipedia - Tianzhou (spacecraft)Wikipedia: Tianzhou (spacecraft), lead section
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1. Wikipedia - Tianzhou (spacecraft)
  • Infobox, type
    Automated cargo spacecraft
  • Infobox, status
    Active
  • Article text: launch date
    It was first launched (Tianzhou 1) on the Long March 7 rocket from Wenchang on April 20, 2017
  • In Group: Government Agency Cargo Spacecraft, lead sentence: series of Chinese automated cargo spacecraft to resupply the Tiangong modular space station
  • Operated By: China National Space Administration, Wikipedia: Tianzhou (spacecraft), lead section
  • Mission Of: Tiangong Program, Article text
    a series of Chinese automated cargo spacecraft developed from China's first prototype space station Tiangong-1 to resupply its modular space station
  • Part Of: Tiangong Program, Article text
    a series of Chinese automated cargo spacecraft developed from China's first prototype space station Tiangong-1 to resupply its modular space station
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