Long March 7 Tianzhou [RSS]

Long March 7

Designed as a replacement of the Long March 2F, Long March 7 and its variants was expected to be the workhorse of the fleet, projected to account for around 70% of all Chinese launches. Long March 7 plays a critical role in the Chinese Space Station program: it is used to launch the Tianzhou robotic cargo and resupply spacecraft to the station. The rocket was intended to replace the Long March 2F as China's crew-rated launch vehicle in the future,[4] although by 2023 this role has apparently been taken over by the under-development Long March 10 and Long March 10A.

Since 2020, in addition to the base Long March 7 configuration, there is the Long March 7A (CZ-7A etc.) variant which differs from the base CZ-7 by the addition of a liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen third stage inherited from the third stage of the Long March 3B.[3] The rocket has also been developed into the Long March 8.

Tianzhou Spacecraft

Tianzhou (Heavenly Ship) is a Chinese automated cargo spacecraft developed from China's first prototype space station Tiangong-1 to resupply its modular space station. It was first launched (Tianzhou 1) on the Long March 7 rocket from Wenchang on April 20, 2017 and demonstrated autonomous propellant transfer (space refueling).

CONTROLS:

—AG8: Turn on/off Tianzhou main engines.

—Slider 2: Controls the solar panels.

Credits:

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Universal Docking System

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