{"id":47888,"date":"2025-09-28T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47888\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:55:20","slug":"shenzhou-20-taikonauts-complete-fourth-series-of-extravehicular-activities-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47888\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhou-20 taikonauts complete fourth series of extravehicular activities – Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sept. 25, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronaut Wang Jie performing extravehicular activities outside China’s orbiting space station. The Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China’s orbiting space station completed their mission’s fourth round of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua\/Li Minggang)<\/p>\n

BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — The Shenzhou-20 taikonaut crew on China’s orbiting space station completed their mission’s fourth round of extravehicular activities on Friday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).<\/p>\n

The trio — Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie — worked for approximately six hours and had completed all tasks by 1:35 a.m. (Beijing Time), assisted by the space station’s robotic arm and ground-based researchers.<\/p>\n

Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, tasked with conducting spacewalk operations, completed the installation of space debris protection devices and the inspection of external equipment, the CMSA said.<\/p>\n

The agency noted that this marked the first time that two members of China’s third batch of taikonauts had jointly carried out a spacewalk.<\/p>\n

To date, the orbiting Shenzhou-20 crew has completed four rounds of extravehicular activities — making it one of the two Chinese crews to have conducted the most extravehicular missions.<\/p>\n

The Shenzhou-20 crew has been in orbit for more than 150 days. As planned, they will also carry out a large number of scientific experiments and technological tests.<\/p>\n

The three taikonauts will celebrate the upcoming National Day (Oct. 1) and Mid-Autumn Festival (Oct. 6) on the Chinese space station Tiangong, the agency said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sept. 25, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronauts Wang Jie (L) and Chen Zhongrui working inside China’s orbiting space station. The Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China’s orbiting space station completed their mission’s fourth round of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua\/Li Minggang)<\/p>\n

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This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sept. 25, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronaut Chen Dong working inside China’s space station combination. The Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China’s orbiting space station completed their mission’s fourth round of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua\/Li Minggang)<\/p>\n

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This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sept. 25, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronaut Chen Dong working inside China’s space station combination. The Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China’s orbiting space station completed their mission’s fourth round of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua\/Li Minggang)<\/p>\n

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This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sept. 25, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronaut Chen Zhongrui working inside China’s space station. The Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China’s orbiting space station completed their mission’s fourth round of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua\/Li Minggang)<\/p>\n

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This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sept. 25, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronaut Wang Jie performing extravehicular activities outside China’s orbiting space station. The Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China’s orbiting space station completed their mission’s fourth round of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua\/Li Minggang)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sept. 25, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronaut Wang Jie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-47888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}