Human Spaceflight
SHENZHOU-12 (SZ-12)
DecayedHuman SpaceflightLEO
Shenzhou 12 was a Chinese spaceflight to the Tiangong space station, launched on 17 June 2021. It carried three People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonauts on board a Shenzhou spacecraft. The mission was the seventh crewed Chinese spaceflight and the twelfth flight overall of the Shenzhou program. It was the first flight to Tiangong, and the first Chinese crewed spaceflight since Shenzhou 11 in 2016.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 17, 2021 at 01:22 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F/G →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shenzhou 12
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 390 km
- Periapsis
- 384 km
- Inclination
- 41.55°
- Orbital period
- 92.3 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2021-053A
- NORAD catalog №
- 48852
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 17, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 17, 2021
- Time in service
- 92 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed