[FPSPACE] Chinese docking system

[Morris Jones]

The latest Aviation Leak article documenting the recent US field trip to China mentions the SZ docking system. The article claims that this is incompatible with the Russian androgynous docking system on ISS. Interesting. I thought China had adopted the APAS and had previously spoken of international standards. 

Perhaps what we see on Shenzhou is a modified APAS that has been reverse-engineered from Russian hardware.

Full article at www.aviationweek.com.

Morris Jones
Sydney, Australia (Earth, not Mars anymore)



 		 	   		  
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