{"id":115994,"date":"2025-11-05T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/115994\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:02:08","slug":"breaking-china-postpones-astronauts-return-after-suspected-debris-strikes-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/115994\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking | China postpones astronauts\u2019 return after suspected debris strikes space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has postponed the return of the Shenzhou-20 space mission following a suspected impact by small space debris, the China Manned Space Agency said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The agency said it was carrying out an impact analysis and risk assessment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTo ensure the safety and health of the astronauts and the success of the mission, it has been decided that the Shenzhou-20 return mission, originally scheduled for November 5, will be postponed,\u201d it said in an announcement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left, Chinese astronauts Wang Jie, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui pictured in April ahead of the Shenzhou-20 mission. Photo: Getty Images\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11b97843-561d-484b-90ca-fd491cdb48a1_276f726c.jpg\" title=\"From left, Chinese astronauts Wang Jie, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui pictured in April ahead of the Shenzhou-20 mission. Photo: Getty Images\"\/>From left, Chinese astronauts Wang Jie, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui pictured in April ahead of the Shenzhou-20 mission. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The incident has occured days after the three astronauts were joined on board the Tiangong space station by their relief crew, with a handover ceremony transferring the keys to the facility taking place on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There are currently two spacecraft docked at the station, with the Shenzhou-20 return vehicle believed to be affected by the space debris.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang Jie, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui, the Shenzhen-20 trio, have been in orbit since April and were scheduled to return to the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia in northern China on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The landing site has been the scene of multiple rounds of drills preparing for their arrival, according to Xinhua. These have include systems tests for air search and rescue, ground response, communication support and medical monitoring and aid.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has postponed the return of the Shenzhou-20 space mission following a suspected impact by small space debris,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1657,13953,85,46,72295,141,47185,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-115994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-china-manned-space-agency","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-november","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-shenzhou-20","15":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}