First Resupply Ship Reaches Chinese Space Station

Tianzhou 2
Credit: CASC
MOSCOW—China’s first resupply ship for its new orbital space station has docked. The Tianzhou-2 (Heavenly Ship) launched atop a Long March 7 medium-lift rocket on May 29 from the Wenchang Launch Site on the coast of southern China’s island province of Hainan. The spacecraft separated from the launch...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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