THE DEVELOPMENT HISTORY AND APPLICATION STATUS OF CHINA'S MANNED SPACECRAFT DOCKING MECHANISM

摘要

The rendezvous docking technology was the key mission in the second phase of China's manned spaceflight project, and the docking mechanism was one of the key technologies. The development history of the dock mechanism of China's ShenZhou spaceship and Tiangong target spacecraft is introduced in this paper, including the details of argumentation, research, designing, testing and so on. The paper also introduces the technical solutions of China's docking mechanism in details and describes the current application status of China's docking mechanism, together with the flight conditions of Shenzhou 8, Shenzhou 9 flight missions,.