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Tianzhou 8
2024 Chinese resupply spaceflight. Tianzhou 8 was launched on November 15, 2024 aboard a Chang Zheng 7 from Wenchang. Latest status in GCAT: docked with another object (Nov 15, 2024).
COSPAR 2024-211ANORAD 61983China
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Tianzhou-8
- Common name
- Tianzhou 8
- International designator
- 2024-211A
- NORAD catalog number
- 61983
- GCAT identifier
- S61983
Mission
- Mission type
- Human spaceflight
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- Tianzhou
- Owner
- ZZHGB
- Country
- China
- Builder
- Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
- Platform (bus)
- Tianzhou
Launch
- Date
- November 15, 2024 · 15:13 UTC
- Launch record
- 2024-211Success
- Rocket
- Chang Zheng 7
- Spaceport
- Wenchang · pad LC201
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 389 km
- Apogee
- 392 km
- Inclination
- 41.47°
- Status
- Docked with another object
- Status date
- November 15, 2024
- Last known active
- Jul 8, 2025
- End of operations
- Jul 8, 2025
Size
- Mass
- 6,683 kg
- Dry mass
- 6,000 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 13.2 t
- Length
- 9.0 m
- Diameter
- 3.35 m
- Span
- 9.0 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q130377064 (CC0).