[FPSPACE] China's launch schedule

[Charles, John B. (JSC-SA211)]

Thanks, Phill!

>From the link, there is this information: "From 2011 to 2012, Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 will be launched.  As far as I know, SZ-8 and SZ-9 are unmanned while SZ-10 will be manned. And all of the three Shenzhou spacecraft will be docked with the Tiangong-1."

I have always assumed that Tiangong-1 will have a single docking port, and that Shenzhou-8, 9 and 10 will sequentially dock and then undock, leaving the single docking port available for the next mission in the sequence.

But every time I read a mission description, it makes no mention of undockings, only dockings.  For example, the quoted text says: "...the three Shenzhou spacecraft will be docked with the Tiangong-1."

This makes me wonder if the plan is to leave the orbital modules of Shenzhou's 8 and 9 docked to Tiangong-1, as was once hypothesized about Soyuz dockings to Soviet space station core modules.

Can you between these options for me?

John Charles
Houston, Texas

From: fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org [mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Clark
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 12:14 PM
To: FPSPACE
Subject: [FPSPACE] China's launch schedule

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=5060.300

This is perhaps the best forward projection of Chinese launches that anyone can get.

Phillip Clark
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From: E.P. Grondine<mailto:epgrondine at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] China provides free comsat to Nigeria

Good morning,

http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Nigeria_And_China_Sign_Pact_To_Replace_Faulty_Satellite_By_2011_999.html

Remember that Nigeria is an oil producing country.

It is clear that China intends to use the provision of free space services to developing countries as a peaceful foreign policy tool supporting international economic development.

I've asked you fpspacers before about China's launch manifest, including out year projections on CZ 2h and CZ5 utilization, but no one has responded yet. Given the consequences for US, EU, Russian, and Ukrainian space service providers, this is a non-trivial question.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas
(write to me about the fpspace special)


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