China will carry out 6 spaceflight missions this year

On April 17, the Information Office of the State Council of China held a press conference to introduce the progress of the construction of the Chinese space station. Hao Chun, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, said that according to the mission plan, six missions will be carried out in 2022 to complete the orbital construction of the space station. , the six missions are: launching the Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft in May, launching the Shenzhou-14 manned spacecraft in June, 3 astronauts entering the core module and staying in orbit for 6 months, and launching the space station to the sky in July The experimental module is docked with the Tianhe core module, and the Mengtian experimental module will be launched in October to dock with the core module. After that, the three modules of the space station will form a "T" basic configuration, and the on-orbit construction of the space station will be completed. The Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft will be launched later. and the Shenzhou 15 manned spacecraft.