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The Tianhe cargo and supply architecture included Tianzhou-2 delivering EVA suits to support Shenzhou-12 extravehicular activities.
Shenzhou-12 launched on a Long March 2F from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 9:22 p.m. Eastern on 2021-06-16.
The Shenzhou-12 crewed mission was scheduled to launch to the Chinese Space Station Tianhe from Jiuquan at 9:22 p.m. Eastern on 2021-06-16.
Shenzhou-12 will be launched at 9:22 a.m. Thursday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo will conduct the Shenzhou-12 manned spaceflight mission to support construction of China’s space station.
Shenzhou-12 will be the third of 11 missions planned for the construction phase of the three-module Chinese space station across 2021 and 2022.
Tianzhou-2 will remain docked to the Tianhe module to support the Shenzhou-12 crewed mission in June 2021.
The first crewed mission to the Chinese Space Station, Shenzhou-12, will launch from Jiuquan via a Long March 2F hypergolic rocket.
CASC has prepared the 12th and 13th Long March 2F rockets for launching the Shenzhou-12 and Shenzhou-13 missions.
The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft is reported in a 2017 Chinese report to feature an upgraded guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system to meet new mission demands.
The Shenzhou-12 crewed mission will launch on a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert.
Missions to deploy the Chinese Space Station core module, Tianzhou-2, and Shenzhou-12 will require Long March 5B and Long March 7 launches from Wenchang and a Long March 2F launch from Jiuquan.
The next Long March 2F flight is scheduled to launch Shenzhou-12 to the core module of the Chinese Space Station in 2021.