Shenzhou 17
2023 Chinese crewed spaceflight to the Tiangong space station / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shenzhou 17 (Chinese: 神舟十七号; pinyin: Shénzhōu Shíqī-hào; lit. 'Divine Boat Number 17') was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, launched on 26 October 2023. It carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission was the twelfth crewed Chinese spaceflight and the seventeenth flight overall of the Shenzhou program.
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Mission type | Tiangong space station crew transport |
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Operator | China Manned Space Agency |
COSPAR ID | 2023-164A |
SATCAT no. | 58146 |
Mission duration | 187 days, 6 hours and 32 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Shenzhou |
Manufacturer | China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Tang Hongbo Tang Shengjie Jiang Xinlin[1] |
EVAs | 2 |
EVA duration | 15 hours 17 minutes |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 26 October 2023, 03:14:02 UTC[2] |
Rocket | Long March 2F |
Launch site | Jiuquan, LA-4/SLS |
Contractor | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 30 April 2024, 09:46 UTC |
Landing site | Inner Mongolia, China |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 41.5° |
Docking with Tiangong space station | |
Docking port | Tianhe forward |
Docking date | 26 October 2023, 09:46 UTC[3] |
Undocking date | 30 April 2024, 00:43 UTC[4] |
Time docked | 186 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes |
Jiang Xinlin, Tang Hongbo and Tang Shengjie |
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As of October 2023, Shenzhou 17's crew is the youngest ever sent to the Tiangong space station, with an average age of only 38 years old.[5]