{"id":168381,"date":"2025-09-29T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168381\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:22:10","slug":"chinese-astronauts-add-more-debris-shielding-to-tiangong-space-station-on-6-hour-spacewalk-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168381\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese astronauts add more debris shielding to Tiangong space station on 6-hour spacewalk (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

China’s Tiangong space station just got some more protection against debris strikes.<\/p>\n

Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission installed additional shielding on Tiangong<\/a> during a six-hour spacewalk<\/a> on Friday (Sept. 26), according to the state-run broadcaster CCTV.<\/p>\n

It was the fourth spacewalk of the Shenzhou 20 mission, which arrived at Tiangong on April 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Shenzhou 20 astronaut performs a spacewalk outside China’s Tiangong space station on Sept. 26, 2025. (Image credit: CCTV)<\/p>\n

Beefing up Tiangong’s debris shield is apparently a Shenzhou 20 priority; similar work was done during extravehicular activities (EVAs) on both May 22<\/a> and Aug. 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Taikonauts Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie ventured outside Tiangong during Friday’s EVA, while fellow crewmate Chen Dong remained inside the T-shaped, three-module station, according to CCTV.<\/p>\n

The two spacewalkers accomplished all of their prescribed tasks, which included “the installation of debris protection devices and the inspection and maintenance of external equipment,” CCTV wrote in a description<\/a> of the activities.<\/p>\n

Tiangong is about 20% as massive as the International Space Station<\/a>, but that may change: Chinese officials have said that they’re considering adding more modules to the outpost.<\/p>\n

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Shenzhou 20 is the ninth crewed mission to Tiangong. Its three taikonauts are in the home stretch of their space stay; crewed flights to the orbiting outpost last about six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China’s Tiangong space station just got some more protection against debris strikes. Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}