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The Shenzhou-23 crew will support several dozen experiments across the Tianhe, Wentian, and Mengtian modules of the Tiangong Space Station.
Wenchang is investing more than 10 billion in the CZ-9 Wentian national strategic project during the current 5-year plan.
The Tianhe, Wentian, and Mengtian modules were inspected for damage and anomalies during the Shenzhou-21 crew’s third spacewalk.
The spacewalk began and ended through the Wentian module’s airlock.
Zhang Lu and Wu Fei completed inspections of the Tianhe, Wentian, and Mengtian modules during the spacewalk.
Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings were introduced in the Wentian experimental module during the Shenzhou-21 mission.
On December 9th, Zhang Lu and Wu Fei exited the Tiangong Space Station via the Wentian module’s airlock for the first spacewalk of the Shenzhou-21 mission.
The spacewalkers installed space debris protection devices onto station modules and performed inspections of the Tianhe, Wentian, and Mengtian modules.
When the spacewalk occurs, routine inspections of the Tianhe, Wentian, Mengtian, and Shenzhou-22 spacecraft will be conducted.
The Tiangong space station is designed to last over 10 years and consists of a Tianhe core module and a Wentian experimental module.
The Tiangong outpost, completed in late 2022, comprises the Tianhe core module and the Wentian and Mengtian laboratory modules, with a total mass of about 100 metric tons.
One of the planned activities during the Shenzhou-21 mission is to conduct spacewalks to install hardware and inspect the Tianhe, Wentian, and Mengtian modules.
Colonel Chen Zhongrui, 40, and Colonel Wang Jie, 36, floated in space for nearly six hours before returning to the Wentian science module at 1:35 am.
Cai Xuzhe exited the Wentian experiment module hatch of the Tiangong space station at 11:51 p.m. Eastern on 2024-12-16 (0451 UTC, 2024-12-17).
Song Lingdong exited the Wentian experiment module hatch of the Tiangong space station at 1:32 a.m. Eastern on 2024-12-17 (0632 UTC).
Tang Hongbo and Tang Shengjie reentered the Tiangong space station through the Wentian science module EVA hatch at 8:35 a.m. Eastern (1335 UTC) on 2023-12-21.
The Wentian module launched in July and was transpositioned from the forward docking port on Tianhe to the starboard port on 2022-09-30.
The Tiangong space station second module, Wentian, launched in July 2022 and was transpositioned to a side docking port for the lifetime of the Tiangong outpost.
Shenzhou-14 commander Chen Dong and crew member Liu Yang completed an extravehicular activity using the Wentian airlock.
Wentian’s new crew facilities will enable China to perform a first crew handover between the Shenzhou-14 and Shenzhou-15 missions.