The spacecraft took off at the scheduled time from the Jiuqian satellite launch center in the northwest of the country via the Long March-2F carrier rocket, according to images broadcast live on state television CGTN.
Once it enters orbit, the ship will have to dock with the 18-meter-long
Those responsible for the space mission announced moments after liftoff and the solar panels were successfully deployed that the launch had been a "complete success."
The astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-14,
In April, its predecessor, the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft, landed in the Gobi desert after completing its operations in the
That was also the second manned mission that
On the Shenzhou-13 mission, the astronauts completed various tasks to advance the preparation of the Chinese space station, including two spacewalks, more than 20 scientific experiments and data collection.
The Shenzhou-14 and Shenzhou-15 astronauts are expected to finally finish construction work on
The Shenzhou-15 crew is expected to perform extravehicular activities in addition to assembling, testing and debugging payloads inside the modules on the upcoming mission.
The
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