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Benjamin Fernando, a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins, and Constantinos Charalambous of Imperial College London used data from 127 seismometers to reconstruct the Shenzhou module’s path.
The struck Shenzhou spacecraft returned to Earth on January 19.
Deliveries of Shenzhou-23 and Shenzhou-24 spacecraft and their Long March 2F/G launch vehicles were moved up by six months to be available in case of an emergency requiring a new spacecraft.
Shenzhou-24 mission hardware will also be prepared on an accelerated schedule.
China’s human spaceflight program is currently in a hazardous period with no backup Shenzhou spacecraft or Long March 2F/G launch vehicle available at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
Shenzhou is a multi-role vehicle capable of transporting taikonauts to and from orbit.
The Shenzhou spacecraft facilitates emergency returns to Earth if necessary.
The Shenzhou spacecraft can serve as a life raft while docked at Tiangong.
The Shenzhou spacecraft is developed from the Russian Soyuz design with significant Chinese modifications.
Inspections detected small cracks on the return capsule's viewport window of Shenzhou XX, attributed to a space debris impact.
Shenzhou missions have been used to crew China's Tiangong space station, exchanging teams of three astronauts every six months.
The newly prepared Shenzhou XXII spacecraft now serves as a contingency vehicle for the station's crew.
The Shenzhou XXII mission will deliver a full load of supplies, including equipment and provisions needed to support operations on Tiangong.
The return of the Shenzhou XX crew concluded a record-setting 204-day stay by Chinese astronauts in orbit.
The Shenzhou XX crew safely landed on November 14 with the Shenzhou XXI capsule after extending their original mission by nine days.
Shenzhou XXII was initially planned to transport its assigned crew to the Tiangong space station in April 2026.
The Long March 2F launch vehicle has completed propellant injection for the Shenzhou XXII mission.
All members of the Shenzhou XXI crew remain in good health aboard the Tiangong space station.
Shenzhou spacecraft have been refined and upgraded as part of a new production batch for 2026 and 2027 missions.
Selected components of the Shenzhou spacecraft have been refined to improve reliability in critical space technologies.