Shenzhou - China's manned spacecraft

Facts

Name: ShenZhou (神舟) is Chinese for Divine Ship
Length: 9.25 m
Diameter: max. 2.8 m (living compartment)
Weight: 7.84 t (empty)
Docking port: One
Energy supply: Two 4-segment solar arrays (with a span of 17m)
Expected life time: around one month (since Shenzhou 11)
Launch vehicle: Long March 2F
Max. Persons: 3
Volume: 14.00 m³

Mission overview

Mission name	Launch	Landing	Duration	Crew	Mission description
Shenzhou 1	19th November 1999	20th November 1999	21 hours 11 minutes	No crew on board	The Shenzhou 1 was the first test flight of a Shenzhou spacecraft.
Shenzhou 2	9th January 2001	16th January 2001	7 days 10 hours 22 minutes	No crew on board	Shenzhou 2 carried multiple scientific payloads including monkey, dog, rabbit and other animals to space and save back to earth.
Shenzhou 3	25th March 2002	1st April 2002	6 days 18 hours 51 minutes	No crew on board	Onboard Shenzhou 3 a human-sized test dummy went to space and back to earth.
Shenzhou 4	29th December 2002	5th January 2003	6 days 18 hours 36 minutes	No crew on board	The last test flight before a manned spaceflight carried a test dummy and multiple science experiments.
Shenzhou 5	15th October 2003	15th October 2003	21 hours 23 minutes	– Yang Liwei	This was China’s first manned spaceflight and China became the third country that send a human into space by their own spacecraft and rocket.
Shenzhou 6	12th October 2005	16th October 2005	4 days 19 hours 33 minutes	– Fei Junlong – Nie Haisheng	Shenzhou 6 was China’s first two-person spaceflight and they stayed multiple days in space.
Shenzhou 7	25th September 2008	28th September 2008	2 days 20 hours 27 minutes	– Zhai Zhigang – Liu Boming – Jing Haipeng	On Shenzhou 7 China performed for the first time a three-person spaceflight and undertook the first spacewalk.
Shenzhou 8	31st October 2011	17th November 2011	16 days 13 hours 34 minutes	No crew on board	During Shenzhou 8 mission occurred the first autonomous docking of a Shenzhou spacecraft with Tiangong-1 space laboratory.
Shenzhou 9	16th June 2012	29th June 2012	12 days 15 hours 24 minutes	– Jing Haipeng – Liu Wang – Liu Yang	This Shenzhou mission performed the first manned visit of Tiangong-1 space laboratory and a first spaceflight of a Chinese woman.
Shenzhou 10	11th June 2013	26th June 2013	14 days 14 hours 29 minutes	– Nie Haisheng – Zhang Xiaoguang – Wang Yaping	The Shenzhou 10 flight was the second manned visit of Tiangong-1 space laboratory and the first Chinese two-week-stay in space.
Shenzhou 11	17th October 2016	18th November 2016	32 days 06 hours 29 minutes	– Jing Haipeng – Chen Dong	Shenzhou 11 marked China’s first long duration flight and only flight to Tiangong-2 space laboratory.
Shenzhou 12	17th June 2021	September 2021	3 months planned	– Nie Haisheng – Liu Boming – Yang Hongbo	The Shenzhou 12 is a planned mission for the first manned flight to visit the core module TianHe of China’s space station.