Update: China's Shenzhou-20 manned spaceship docks with space station combination

Xinhua
24 Apr 2025, 23:47 GMT+10

This simulated image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on April 24, 2025 shows the Shenzhou-20 manned spaceship successfully docked with the space station's core module Tianhe. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- China's Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship successfully docked with the space station combination late on Thursday night, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

The spaceship made a fast, automated rendezvous and docking with the radial port of the space station's core module Tianhe at 11:49 p.m. (Beijing Time). The whole process took approximately 6.5 hours, said the CMSA.

The astronaut trio aboard the spaceship will then enter the Tianhe module. Meanwhile, the Shenzhou-19 crew members are ready for their arrival.

The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China earlier on Thursday.

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