Human Spaceflight
TIANZHOU-7
DecayedHuman SpaceflightLEO
The Tianzhou is a series of Chinese automated cargo spacecraft developed from China's first prototype space station Tiangong-1 to resupply its modular space station. It was first launched on the Long March 7 rocket from Wenchang on April 20, 2017 and demonstrated autonomous propellant transfer. Tianzhou also removes waste from the Tiangong via its destructive atmospheric reentry.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 17, 2024 at 02:27 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wenchang, China
- Launched by
- Long March 7 →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Tianzhou 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 392 km
- Periapsis
- 377 km
- Inclination
- 41.47°
- Orbital period
- 92.25 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 13,200 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2024-013A
- NORAD catalog №
- 58811
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 17, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 17, 2024
- Time in service
- 305 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed