Drone Show Celebrating China's Space Program at Shenzhou-20 Crew Launch Site
The evening before the launch of the Shenzhou-20 crewed mission to the China Space Station, a thousand drones illuminated the sky at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Against the backdrop of the night sky, "technology painted a brilliant starry river."
China launched the Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft on April 24, 2025, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station for a six-month mission. The spacecraft, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off at 17:17 (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The crew members are mission commander Chen Dong and crew members Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie. Wang Jie is the first astronaut from China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region where this launch pad is located.
The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) was founded in 1958. It was the first of China's four spaceports. The launch center has been the focus of many of China's historic space ventures, including the country's first satellite Dong Fang Hong I in 1970 and their first crewed space mission, Shenzhou V, on October 15, 2003. JSLC is now a home for many new Chinese commercial space launch firms, like Landspace.
Duration: 50 seconds
Release Date: April 23, 2025
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