Week 30, 2022: 问天实验舱发射升空到达天宫空间站

问天实验舱从文昌卫星中心发射升空(左图),工程师在进行发射前的流程(右图)。

北京时间7月24日14时22分,天宫空间站扩展舱,问天由长征五号B火箭运载在海南文昌航天发射场成功发射升空。约13小时后,问天实验舱与天和核心舱完成自主前向交会对接。次日神舟十四号航天员乘组成功开启问天实验舱舱门,顺利进入问天实验舱。目前正在准备在接下来的几天里将问天实验舱从当前所在的天和前向前向端口转移到径向对接端口。

在 Celestia 中,你可以下载天宫空间站插件来查看空间站的复杂结构。

你也可以下载晴天钟来查看空间站的实时位置,以及过境时间。

来源Spaceflight Now

Newest Addons of the Week

These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting in the past two weeks (July 18 - 30, 2022) by category

Asteroids & NEOs

The bolide that caused the 1972 Great Daylight meteor seen here severely burnt after its encounter with Earth's atmosphere

Comets

The cometary fragment only just a few hours before it exploded over Tunguska in Siberia, Russia in 1908-Jun-30

Updates
Exoplanets

The red dwarf star looms large over the horizon of its planet, Kepler-438 Ab

Unconfirmed Planets
Updates
Fictional

Darwin IV, the primary setting of the acclaimed 1990 novel (Expedition) and 2005 TV special on Discovery Channel (Alien Planet)

Planets & Moons

The first global maps of Mars taken in B&W by the Mariner probes from 1969 to 1972

Spacecraft

WISE is the observatory that discovered C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), aka the Great Comet of 2020

Updates
Stars

A distant eclipsing binary star system known as BM Cassiopeiae

Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs)

The surfaces of Pluto and its moon, Charon, rendered in 3D


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