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T-30 minutes: all of the three rotating platform of launch tower was open:

Science & Technology Daily: ..."the cargo supplies delivered by TZ-6 are not very different from those previous TZ. Mainly including clothing, food and drinking water etc. Among them, the 70kg of fresh fruit, is about twice the weight of fruit carried by TZ-5. The fruit will serve the needs of the SZ-15 crew which currently in the station. And the SZ-16 crew which will be on the station (next month)." ... "In the future, CNSA also plans to send a large refrigerator up there and hope the crew can eat fired beef in the space." P.S.: Currently there's a little fridge in the Tianhe core module for medical laboratory samples. And another one at MT module for biological experiment samples: this one can provide -80℃, -20℃ and +4℃ in three different chamber.

via. https://weibo.com/2645044133/MFoZTgPDQ Fun fact: the context on the banners on the launch platform is different each time. This time is "Remembering the mandate and keeping on. Asking the sky from the sea and mountain and we shall go higher."

A self-publishing blogger joins Lanspace's convoy to JSLC which delivered the Zhuque-2 Y2 rocket. When the commercial rocket launch site in Wenchang is completed, there will be no need to traverse the whole of China by road. Landspace's convoy and Minsk which parked on the north bank of Sutong Yangtze River Highway Bridge shoot by same guy. I went on this carrier when I was a kid when it was still in Shenzhen

T-6 hours for Tianzhou-6's launch. Live stream: https://live.bilibili.com/10921840?live_from=84002&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0 According to the "white smoke" from the launch tower, the low temperature fuels should be filled or filling in the rocket

A kind of traditional east Asian game for slacking off at work

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The equipment originally installed in the lower cone section was moved to the propulsion section, and then the cabin area was increased - I assumed that the previous design did not fully know how much propellant would be needed for the station overall, and then the TZ was designed pretty conservatively. The original video also mentions that the phased-array signal relay antenna can be used at a significantly reduced cost without affecting the original effectiveness. Meanwhile, TZ-6 increased proportion of domestically produced components.

Southern China has been experiencing strong convective weather in recent days. Someone just put a gopro to do some time lapse:

Xinhua: after 276 days of in-orbit operation, the reusable experimental spacecraft successfully returned to the landing site at JSLC

New paper about Chang'e-5 lunar sample: Diverse glasses revealed from Chang’E-5 lunar regolith

In next month, the CSS will be like: add: lol, the top three trend on weibo now is "the astronauts are going to unboxing the parcels in space again"

While people were taking photos about TZ-6 moving to launch pad from VAB, they also took one to the commercial launch tower: via. https://weibo.com/5972454182/MFtC5dECC

Chinese in both Mandarin and Cantonese: guā guā

Here we go! via. https://weibo.com/7297852466/MFrPgotJc In the video of the CCTV interview with the engineers, there's footages which I found quite interesting: The new "facilities" behind the rocket launch sites doesn't look so much like it serves to rocket science but for tourism. Don't know what's really for yet.

Then we have three plans for returning more experiment samples back home as know so far. : Tianzhou + heat shield and the unmanned mode of the next gen manned spacecraft.

As a remnant of ancient history in modern times, it is still quite fun. To be honest, I've actually walked this parade route last year - from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace. What an idiot

Looks 98% sure that’s a real one for me with this background. I have seen and heard too many stories about someone from western and my father’s Japanese colleagues that thinks themselves “know China a lot”. They go to somewhere odd to grab some odd wines wasted lots of money. And then when they come back his Chinese friend/my dad: wait… are you serious…? My advice is try to taste it like vodka: 20ml at most each time. Ha, greeting from China by 53 alcohol volume! Maotai in here also is for something really important. Such as in important festivals like New Year’s Eve and for business banquets which have important clients. But well... the highest etiquette is actually at the banquet when your Chinese buddy pulls a bottle of wine out of his bag that is in a plastic bag with no label and share it with you.

A kind reminder: there are many fakes of this stuff. Although I've never had a fake one, from what my friend has complained to me, fake Maotai makes it easier to get drunk. Of course it could be that he was making excuses for his alcohol intolerance.

Confirm. According to CMS, the TZ-5 has just left the station. It will dock at Tianhe's forward docking port when Shenzhou-15 has left the station later. Camera at Tianhe toward Tianzhou. via. https://weibo.com/1971177973/MF91xbLWq

Investigation of Reverse Jet Effects on Aerodynamic Characteristics of Returned Launch Vehicle, Journal of Astronautics 2023, 44 (3) No paywall but it's Chinese (of course!)

Found something funny: The difference between the accent of the Korean people of Yanbian, China, the DPRK accent and KR accent. At the end is the Mandarin in north-eastern accent What he said in English is "This is our home-grown organic courgette."

Full interview video by CCTV (English subs not available): https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1JL411a7Np/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click&vd_source=6fef304b8d0c4737896e6b702ddfbfb3