Shenzhou 7
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Key facts
- Mission type
- Crewed test flight
- Operator
- China Manned Space Agency
- Cospar id
- 2008-047A
- Mission duration
- 2 days, 20 hours, 27 minutes
- Spacecraft type
- Shenzhou
- Manufacturer
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Members
- Zhai Zhigang , Liu Boming , Jing Haipeng
- Eva duration
- 22 minutes
- Launch date
- 25 September 2008, 13:10:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Long March 2F
- Launch site
- Jiuquan , LA-4/SLS-1
- Contractor
- China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
- Landing date
- 28 September 2008, 09:37:40 ( 2008-09-28UTC09:37:41Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- Siziwang Banner , Inner Mongolia ( 42°16′37″N 111°21′34″E / 42.27694°N 111.35944°E / 42.27694; 111.35944 )
- Reference system
- Geocentric orbit
- Regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Perigee altitude
- 330 km (210 mi)
- Apogee altitude
- 340 km (210 mi)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- China Manned Space Program
- Followed by
- Shenzhou 8
- Follows
- Shenzhou 6
- Image
- Shenzhou spacecapsule drawing.png
- Significant event
- landing
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- Commons category
- Shenzhou-7
- space launch vehicle
- Long March 2F
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2008-09-25
- crew members
- Jing Haipeng
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 2008-09-28
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- start point
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
- different from
- Tianzhou 7
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Encyclopedic overview
Shenzhou 7 (simplified Chinese: 神舟七号; traditional Chinese: 神舟七號; pinyin: Shénzhōu Qī Hào) was the third human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program. The mission, which included the first Chinese extra-vehicular activity (EVA) carried out by crew members Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming, marked the start of the "second step" of the China Manned Space Program.
The Shenzhou spacecraft carrying the three crew members was launched 25 September 2008, by a Long March 2F rocket, making its final flight before being replaced by the 2F/G, which lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 21:10 CST. The mission lasted three days, after which the craft landed safely in Siziwang Banner in central Inner Mongolia on 28 September 2008, at 17:37 CST. The Shenzhou 7 EVA made the Chinese space program the third to have conducted an EVA. EVAs had previously been conducted by the space programs of the Soviet Union (later Russia) and the United States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shenzhou 7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.