{"id":403035,"date":"2025-11-25T06:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403035\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:39:13","slug":"china-sends-emergency-return-vehicle-to-tiangong-space-station-to-replace-damaged-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403035\/","title":{"rendered":"China sends emergency return vehicle to Tiangong space station to replace damaged craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has launched a replacement ship that will travel to its space station as a substitute return vessel.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft carrying 600kg (1,320 pounds) of goods, including food and equipment, was launched at 12.11pm on Tuesday and was expected to dock with the Tiangong space station autonomously.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That meant it could not make a safe return to Earth, and the spacecraft will now remain in orbit where it will be used for research.<\/p>\n<p>Any further mishap could pose a challenge to the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3331179\/china-sends-astronauts-and-mice-space-station-first-mammal-study-orbit?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">current Tiangong crew<\/a>\u2019s safe return around April next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has launched a replacement ship that will travel to its space station as a substitute return vessel.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":403036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[9310,178823,190576,178824,190577,159,178828,783,3622,67,132,68,79880],"class_list":{"0":"post-403035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-cctv","9":"tag-china-manned-space-agency","10":"tag-great-wall","11":"tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","12":"tag-long-march-2f-y22","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-shenzhou-22","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-tiangong-space-station","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-xinhua"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115608968518377449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}