The Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft has successfully docked with the Tianhe main module of the Chinese orbital station. It should be noted that the docking took place at 05:16 Beijing time. As a result, after the spacecraft launched from the Wenchang Cosmodrome site, 7 hours and 54 minutes passed.
This is reported by TASS with reference to the Human Space Flight Program Office of the People’s Republic of China. In total, Tianzhou-6 brought to the station 5.8 tons of payload out of a possible 7.4 tons, consisting of fuel, food, supplies for experiments, daily necessities and other items that will be useful for three cosmonauts to stay in orbit for 280 days. .
Earlier, China successfully completed a test of a reusable spacecraft. The launch of the device took place at the Jiuquan Space Center in Gansu province in northwest China. In total, it spent 276 days in orbit.
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