According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, at 10:03 on November 12, 2022 (Beijing time), the Long March 7 remote six carrier rocket carrying the Tianzhou 5 cargo spaceship ignited and launched on time at Wenchang Space Launch Site in China. About 10 minutes later, the Tianzhou 5 cargo spaceship successfully separated from the rocket and entered the scheduled orbit, and the solar panels of the spaceship began to work smoothly, The launch was a complete success. In the future, the Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft will conduct autonomous and rapid rendezvous and docking with the orbiting space station assembly.
The Tianzhou V cargo spaceship was loaded with consumables, propellants, application (test) devices and other materials for the three astronauts of Shenzhou 15 who stayed in orbit for six months, as well as the "Macao Student Science Popularization Satellite I", hydrogen oxygen fuel cells for aerospace, space wide energy spectrum high-energy particle detection load and other test projects.
This is the 26th launch mission of China's manned space program and the 449th flight of the Long March series carrier rocket.
