3 Astronauts On Board Chinese Space Station
Taken by Philip Smith on June 29, 2021 @
Manorville, NY USA
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 6D
Exposure Time: 1/1250
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 1000
Date Taken: 2021:06:30 12:06:22
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The space station, called Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace, joins the International Space Station, the project led by the United States and Russia that has been steadily occupied for more than two decades. China's new Space Station is now occupied. Astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo are onboard, preparing the outpost for expansion. On June 29th the crowded station flew over Manorville, New York, where I recorded this picture from my observatory. “This was the view through my 14-inch telescope as the Chinese Space Station soared over my backyard," at 17,500 mph and placed in low Earth orbit between 340 and 450 km (210 and 280 mi) above the surface. The Tiangong Space Station, once completed, will be roughly one-fifth the mass of the International Space Station and about the size of the decommissioned Russian Mir space station. The Tiangong is expected to have a mass between 80 and 100 t (180,000 and 220,000 lb). "This time I got to see the solar panels in this 60° pass. I said I would keep trying to get a better image then last and with solar panels in the image!” I had problems with a camera cable so, I got only 16fps. This was just fast enough to get some better images then the previous CSS pass. The astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo arrived on June 17th for a 3 month mission to bring the Tianhe-1 core module into service. When they are finished, the station will be ready for more. China plans to launch two more modules and link them to the Tianhe-1, turning the existing 16.6m-long, 4.2m-wide cylinder into a Mir-class facility.The final product will weigh nearly 70 tons with living quarters, science labs and even a Hubble-class telescope to view the cosmos. You can see more of my images on my FaceBook page. > https://www.facebook.com/philip.smith.5686 Kind Regards To ALL :-)
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