[Commentary] At 20:55 on May 29th, the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft was successfully launched into space at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China.
In the follow-up, the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center will take over the baton and escort Tianzhou-2 throughout the entire process.
The Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center is the command, dispatch and management center for China's deep space measurement and control.
From "Shenzhou" to "Chang'e", from "Tiangong" to "Tianwen", Beijing Flight Control Center has witnessed the leap-forward development of China's aerospace industry all the way.
[Concurrent] Sun Jun, Deputy Director of Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center
As the flight control team, we control the state of the entire spacecraft, just like we fly a kite. The spacecraft is a kite and we are the ones who fly the kite. Then we need to use this thread and hold the kite, so we send Every instruction and every frame of data calculated needs to be accurate and requires effort.
[Explanation] The Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center must take into account the two major projects of manned spaceflight and deep space exploration.
From China's first Mars exploration mission to the Chang'e-5 mission, and then to the space station mission, the Beijing Flight Control Center team has continued to work hard.
To this end, the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center has formulated a site use and system switching plan.
[Concurrent] Sun Jun, Deputy Director of Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center
Our center will organize very tightly. We will divide our flight control personnel into multiple teams, and all teams will carry out this work in parallel.
For the center, it is indeed a peak period for us (task), but we have also predicted before, so we have been prepared before.
[Explanation] At 5:01 on May 30th, the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft completed an autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking with the core cabin of Tianhe.
Tianzhou-2 carried astronauts' living supplies, extravehicular space suits and space station platform equipment, application loads and propellants, etc., after completing rendezvous and docking with the Tianhe core module, it will be transferred to the combined flight phase, and propellants will be carried out as planned Supplementary and space application project equipment testing and other work.
[Concurrent] Sun Jun, Deputy Director of Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center
After the combination is completed and docked, we will adjust the combination to enter a long-term flight attitude, and then we will maintain the orbit at an appropriate time to make it enter the orbit waiting for the Shenzhou 12 rendezvous and docking, and then we will Replenish the propellant, and then adjust the posture, waiting for the visit of Shenzhou 12.
[Explanation] The China Space Station is a manned space station independently constructed and operated by China.
According to the mission arrangement, the space station is planned to be completed on-orbit construction in 2022. It has the ability to carry out long-term near-Earth space human participation in scientific experiments, technical experiments, and comprehensive development and utilization of space resources, and it will be transferred to the application and development stage.
Reporter Xu Pengpeng Song Xingguang reports from Beijing
Editor in charge: [Song Fangcan]