Home > Chinese rocket blasts off carrying crew to new space station

Sciences
Chinese rocket blasts off carrying crew to new space station

Description

The first astronauts for China's new space station blasted off on Thursday for the country's longest crewed mission to date, a major step in establishing Beijing as a leading space power. The Long March-2F rocket carrying three astronauts lifted off at 9:22 am local time (0122 GMT) in a cloud of smoke from the Jiuquan launch centre in the Gobi desert. IMAGES

Added on the 17/06/2021 03:49:58 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images

To customise your video :

Or Create an account

More videos on the subject

  • Russian rocket blasts off carrying Japanese billionaire to space station

    A Russian rocket carrying Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, his production assistant Yozo Hirano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome towards the International Space Station. IMAGES

    08/12/2021 - AFPTV - First images
  • Russian rocket blasts off carrying Japanese billionaire to space station

    A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan on Wednesday carrying a Japanese billionaire to the International Space Station. The rocket carrying online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa, 46, and his assistant took off at 0738 GMT and is scheduled to arrive at the ISS about six hours later at around 1341 GMT. IMAGES

    08/12/2021 - AFPTV - First images
  • Rocket carrying French-Chinese satellite lifts off in China

    A Long March 2-C rocket carrying a satellite jointly developed by China and France lifted off from a space base in Xichang, in southwestern China. The launch took place around 3:00pm (0700 GMT). The satellite, dubbed the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM), will seek out gamma-ray bursts, powerful cosmic explosions that offer clues about the history of the universe. IMAGES

    22/06/2024 - AFPTV - First images
  • Russian-US crew launches on Soyuz rocket to International Space Station from Kazakhstan

    Two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, and American astronaut Loral O'Hara rocket toward the International Space Station as tensions between Moscow and Washington rise over Ukraine. The crew is expected to dock at the ISS three hours later. The launch comes after Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years failed last month. IMAGES

    15/09/2023 - AFPTV - First images
  • Soyuz rocket carrying Russian film crew approaches ISS

    The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft carrying actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov approaches the International Space Station (ISS). They are docking at the ISS in a bid to best the United States and film the first movie in space. IMAGES

    05/10/2021 - AFPTV - First images

More videosSciences