XZF-SC [CCTV]
The XZF-SC (Xinyidai Zairen Feichuan - Shiyan Chuan, "New Generation Crewed Spaceship - Test Ship") (actual name besides this generic designation not yet known) is a protoype for the next Generation crewed spacecraft developed by CAST, Beijing.
The XZF-SC is a prototype for a new crew capsule. It consists of a 3.3 m diameter 3.0 m long conical crew module and a 3.3 m diameter 5.8 m long service module.
The prototype was launched on the maiden CZ-5B rocket. Without a launch escape system, the prototype spacecraft is carried inside a large payload fairing. The launch vehicle puts the spacecraft into a low earth orbit (LEO), then the spacecraft uses its own propulsion system to reach an elliptic orbit with an apogee of about 8000 km to perform a high speed reentry. It returned successfully on 8 May 2020 to earth and landed in the desert near Jiuquan.
Nation: | China |
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Type / Application: | Crewed spacecraft |
Operator: | CNSA |
Contractors: | CAST |
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Power: | 2 deployable solar arrays, batteries |
Lifetime: | 3 days |
Mass: | 21600 kg |
Orbit: | 162 km × 377 km, 41.1° (initial) |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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XZF-SC | 2020-027A | 05.05.2020 | We LC-101 | CZ-5B | with RCS-FC-SC |