One Step Forward to a Space Station - The Successful Docking of the Shenzhou-8 Spacecraft with Tiangong-1

• 作者: LU RUCAI
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 航空航天
• 关键词: 对接 空间站 飞船 发射成功 地球轨道 公里 升空
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（12）
• 页码范围: 30
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: V526

摘要

<正>ON September 29, 2011 the 8.5-ton target vehicle Tiangong-1 was launched successfully, and now orbits the Earth at a distance of 350 km. It has now been 10 years since the launch of Shenzhou-1 on November 20, 1999, and on November 1 of this year Shenzhou-8 blasted off skywards, tracking for thousands of kilometers before docking with Tiangong-1 on November 3. This marks the completion of the first rendezvous and docking mission of