Author Topic: Tiangong - Chinese Space Station (Read 404158 times)

jcm · « **Reply #921 on:** 08/21/2023 05:51 am »

Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 08/20/2023 06:56 am

Is this the deploy of XW-4 back in December? Or a new cubesat deployment?
Edit: the accompanying text says "a few days ago..." and a related weibo post shows this image
Further edit: Actually text says 日前 which apparently can just mean 'recently', so could be the December deploy.
But Dalian should be deployed sometime soon, maybe?

Alter Sachse · « **Reply #922 on:** 08/21/2023 12:20 pm »

A member in the German forum has written something about this.

https://forum.raumfahrer.net/index.php?topic=11795.msg552861#msg552861

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #923 on:** 08/22/2023 06:07 am »

Quote from: jcm on 08/21/2023 05:51 am

Edit: the accompanying text says "a few days ago..." and a related weibo post shows this image

The video shows the satellite being square shaped along its longitudinal axis, while the photo shows hexagonal. I think they are different satellites.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #924 on:** 08/24/2023 06:30 am »

https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1694577255383740495

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Shenzhou-16 crew have a veggie garden in a box

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #925 on:** 08/27/2023 06:41 am »

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #926 on:** 08/27/2023 01:41 pm »

https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1695792220639785143

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Robotic arm on China Space Station
by astronaut DENG Qingming

clongton · « **Reply #927 on:** 08/27/2023 02:10 pm »

I have to say that the Chinese space program is pretty impressive.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #928 on:** 08/30/2023 06:10 am »

https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1696753957664870568

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🎶 🚨 Shenzhou-16 crew do the cleanup in China Space Station

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #929 on:** 08/31/2023 07:17 am »

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #930 on:** 09/08/2023 08:00 am »

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #931 on:** 09/11/2023 03:30 pm »

https://twitter.com/aj_fi/status/1701231905365004690

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Tianzhou-5 undocked from the Tiangong space station at 0846 UTC today and entered interdependent flight mode, according to CMSA. TZ-5 will be deorbited over the South Pacific Sept. 12 (Beijing time). mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TM7Zj1ezunnp…

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #932 on:** 09/15/2023 05:51 am »

https://twitter.com/byspto/status/1702447775630106644

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CSS after the departure of Tianzhou-5. Shot yesterday morning, Beijing, China. Celestron C14HD + QHY5III715C. PIPP+Autostakkert!3+ImPPG. Funded by Zhihu.com #LightHouseProject.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #933 on:** 09/16/2023 08:13 am »

https://twitter.com/tiangongstation/status/1702559325070540957

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Watch Shenzhou-16 astronauts gardening in space

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #934 on:** 09/18/2023 05:43 am »

https://twitter.com/wulei2020/status/1703596737846444218

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How do astronauts clean up their home in space?
The new episode of #TiangongTVseries shows the scenes of before and after a general cleaning at #ChinaSpaceStation. Click on this.

eeergo · « **Reply #935 on:** 09/21/2023 10:14 am »

Is this a first in human spaceflight? Both the specific action of lighting matches and candles in a space station, and in general having open flames with no particular protections around in a habitable environment.

By the way: not sure what they're explaining, but it's quite cool to see even very feeble drafts combined with -I presume- capillary action of the wax up the wig are enough to keep the candle flame alive and well apparently continuously, even if it's visibly more spherical as could be expected from the lack of buoyancy, and feebler when it's allowed to quiet down, due to the depletion of oxygen around it.

https://twitter.com/SegerYu/status/1704774667616366821

clongton · « **Reply #936 on:** 09/21/2023 11:06 am »

Interesting to watch the properties of an open flame in zero gravity.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #937 on:** 09/22/2023 06:06 am »

I'm not sure if an actual candle was lit on ISS, but there was an experiment with a wick that showed the ball type flame.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/18jun_strangeflames

daedalus1 · « **Reply #938 on:** 09/22/2023 06:21 am »

There was a fire on Mir.

whitelancer64 · « **Reply #939 on:** 09/22/2023 10:23 pm »

Quote from: Steven Pietrobon on 09/22/2023 06:06 am

I'm not sure if an actual candle was lit on ISS, but there was an experiment with a wick that showed the ball type flame.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/18jun_strangeflames

Looks like this was on MIR