Mission type | Tiangong space station crew transport |
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Operator | China Manned Space Agency |
COSPAR ID | 2022-162A |
SATCAT no. | 54379 |
Mission duration | 186 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Shenzhou |
Manufacturer | China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Fei Junlong Deng Qingming Zhang Lu |
EVAs | 4 |
EVA duration | 7 hours 6 minutes (1st EVA only) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 29 November 2022, 15:08:17 UTC |
Rocket | Long March 2F |
Launch site | Jiuquan, LA-4/SLS |
Contractor | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 3 June 2023, 22:33 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 | 29 November 2022, 21:42 UTC |
Undocking date | 3 June 2023, 13:29 UTC |
Time docked | 185 days, 15 hours and 47 minutes |
Shenzhou 15 mission patch Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu |
Shenzhou 15 (Chinese: 神舟十五号; pinyin: Shénzhōu Shíwǔ-hào; lit. 'Divine Boat Number 15') was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, launched on 29 November 2022. It carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission was the tenth crewed Chinese spaceflight and the fifteenth flight overall of the Shenzhou program.