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Shenzhou 16
2023 Chinese crewed spaceflight to the Tiangong space station / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shenzhou 16 (Chinese: 神舟十六号; pinyin: Shénzhōu Shíliù-hào; lit. 'Divine Boat Number 16') was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, launched on 30 May 2023. It carried two People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts and a payload specialist from Beihang University on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission was the eleventh crewed Chinese spaceflight and the sixteenth flight overall of the Shenzhou program.
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![]() Launch of Shenzhou 16 on a Long March 2F | |
Mission type | Tiangong space station crew transport |
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Operator | China Manned Space Agency |
COSPAR ID | 2023-077A ![]() |
SATCAT no. | 56761![]() |
Mission duration | 153 days, 22 hours and 41 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Shenzhou |
Manufacturer | China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Jing Haipeng Zhu Yangzhu Gui Haichao |
EVAs | 1 |
EVA duration | 7 hours 55 minutes |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 30 May 2023, 01:31 UTC |
Rocket | Long March 2F |
Launch site | Jiuquan, LA-4/SLS |
Contractor | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 31 October 2023, 00:12 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 nadir |
Docking date | 30 May 2023, 08:29 UTC |
Undocking date | 30 October 2023, 12:37 UTC |
Time docked | 153 days, 4 hours and 8 minutes |
![]() Gui Haichao, Jing Haipeng and Zhu Yangzhu |
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