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AF-1

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Are those new EVA suits upgraded? 2 EVA suits still remained on CSS, why sending 2 new?
 

by78

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The retrorockets for the Shenzhou return capsule. They are fired for a brief moment just prior to the landing to cushion the impact, as seen in the last three images.

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taxiya

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Rumour from colleague,Tianzhou 3 has a robotic arm
Is there a misunderstanding? It could be that your colleague meant that Tianzhou-3 will conduct a test dock by the robotic arm on Tianhe, not itself carrying a new robotic arm.

There seems to be no mounting port for robotic arm on Tianzhou. The plan was to have one of the lab modules carrying another arm.
 

iantsai

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Are those new EVA suits upgraded? 2 EVA suits still remained on CSS, why sending 2 new?
Two laboratory modules will be launched next year. Thereafter there may be two crew ships docked and six astronauts resident in the space station. So it's necessary to keep more suits for more frequent EVAs and backup.
 

eprash

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Is there a misunderstanding? It could be that your colleague meant that Tianzhou-3 will conduct a test dock by the robotic arm on Tianhe, not itself carrying a new robotic arm.

There seems to be no mounting port for robotic arm on Tianzhou. The plan was to have one of the lab modules carrying another arm.
Could be the case, he himself heard it from another department
 
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