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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
01:22:27
Thursday June 17, 2021
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First Shenzhou flight since 2016. First crewed flight to the new Chinese modular space station.
Shenzhou 12 (Chinese: 神舟十二号)) was a Chinese spaceflight launched on 17 June 2021. The flight marked the seventh crewed Chinese spaceflight and the twelfth flight of the Shenzhou program. The spacecraft carried three members of the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) on the first flight to the Tianhe core module, the first module of the Tiangong space station. Shenzhou 12 successfully undocked from the Tianhe core module on 16 September 2021 and subsequently performed a radial rendezvous test with the Tianhe core module, which was completed on the same day. The reentry module returned to Earth on 17 September 2021. At 92 days, the mission set a new national human spaceflight duration record, surpassing Shenzhou 11's 33 days.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
8,100 kilograms
Agency
CASCRocket
Height: 58.34m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 8,600 kg
GTO: 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust
5,985 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 3.6m
Height: 19.11m
Stages
2
Strap-ons
4
15th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2021
55th
Orbital launch attempt