{"id":305444,"date":"2025-11-25T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305444\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:32:08","slug":"china-sends-emergency-return-vehicle-to-tiangong-space-station-to-replace-damaged-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305444\/","title":{"rendered":"China sends emergency return vehicle to Tiangong space station to replace damaged craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has launched a replacement ship that will travel to its space station as a substitute return vessel.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft carrying 600kg (1,320 pounds) of goods, including food and equipment, was launched at 12.11pm on Tuesday and was expected to dock with the Tiangong space station autonomously.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That meant it could not make a safe return to Earth, and the spacecraft will now remain in orbit where it will be used for research.<\/p>\n<p>Any further mishap could pose a challenge to the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3331179\/china-sends-astronauts-and-mice-space-station-first-mammal-study-orbit?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">current Tiangong crew<\/a>\u2019s safe return around April next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has launched a replacement ship that will travel to its space station as a substitute return vessel.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,55977,45635,136935,50249,136936,66,126206,306,45636,23187],"class_list":["post-305444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cctv","tag-china-manned-space-agency","tag-great-wall","tag-jiuquan-satellite-launch-centre","tag-long-march-2f-y22","tag-science","tag-shenzhou-22","tag-space","tag-tiangong-space-station","tag-xinhua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}