Tianzhou

Overview

China's automated cargo spacecraft, delivering pressurized and unpressurized supplies, propellant, and experiment payloads to the Tiangong space station; built by CAST and rated the world's most capable active cargo spacecraft by transport capacity.

Operational since Tianzhou 1's April 2017 debut, launched on the Long March 7 from Wenchang on a roughly six-month resupply cadence. Tianzhou 10 delivered about 7 tonnes of supplies, experiments, and equipment to Tiangong on May 11, 2026, docking the same day.

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