Human Spaceflight
SHENZHOU-8 (SZ-8)
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Shenzhou is a Chinese spacecraft developed for the China Manned Space Program. Its design was based on Russia's Soyuz, but larger and modernized. It has conducted 23 flights since 1999, including 17 crewed flights since 2005, the most recent being Shenzhou 23.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 31, 2011 at 09:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F/G →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shenzhou-8 & Shenzhou-8-GC
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 336 km
- Periapsis
- 333 km
- Inclination
- 42.8°
- Orbital period
- 91.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 5,500 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-063A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37859
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 16.0843 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 17, 2011
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 17, 2011
- Time in service
- 17 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed