{"id":140660,"date":"2026-05-11T19:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/china-launches-tianzhou-10-cargo-mission-to-tiangong-space-station\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:02:45","slug":"china-launches-tianzhou-10-cargo-mission-to-tiangong-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/china-launches-tianzhou-10-cargo-mission-to-tiangong-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches Tianzhou 10 cargo mission to Tiangong space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEIJING, China, May 11 \u2014 China launched the Tianzhou 10 robotic cargo mission on Monday morning in Hainan province, sending supplies and propellants to the Tiangong space station.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cargo vessel\u2019s carrier \u2014 a 53-meter-tall Long March 7 rocket \u2014 lifted off at 8:14 am from a launch service tower at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan\u2019s southeastern coast.<\/p>\n<p>After a short flight, the rocket placed the Tianzhou 10 into its preset low-Earth orbit, and the solar wings on the spacecraft unfolded, marking the successful completion of the launch mission.<\/p>\n<p>As the 20th spaceship and the ninth cargo craft to connect with Tiangong, Tianzhou 10 is carrying nearly 6.2 metric tons of mission necessities, science equipment, and about 700 kilograms of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The cargo includes a new spacewalk suit, a new treadmill and six sets of experimental instruments, which cover scientific experiments in microgravity and fluid physics as well as new spacecraft technological tests.<\/p>\n<p>According to its designers at the China Academy of Space Technology, the Tianzhou 10 is designed to dock with the Tiangong space station for a whole year, making it the longest cargo mission in China\u2019s space industry.<\/p>\n<p>Tianzhou 10\u2019s predecessor, the Tianzhou 9, undocked from the Tiangong on May 6 after completing a 295-day flight with the space station. It re-entered the atmosphere the next morning under guidance from ground controllers. Most of the spacecraft disintegrated and burned during re-entry, with a small amount of debris falling into designated areas of the ocean, the China Manned Space Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit\u00a0China Daily<\/p>\n<p>For subscriptions on news from China Daily, or inquiries, please contact China Daily Africa Ltd on +254 20 6920900 or write to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:enquiries@chinadailyafrica.com\">enquiries@chinadailyafrica.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, China, May 11 \u2014 China launched the Tianzhou 10 robotic cargo mission on Monday morning in Hainan province, sending supplies and propellants to the Tiangong space station. The cargo vessel\u2019s carrier \u2014 a 53-meter-tall Long March 7 rocket \u2014 lifted off at 8:14 am from a launch service tower at the Wenchang Space Launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}