Mission accomplished! The Tianzhou IV cargo spacecraft will be controlled to re-enter the atmosphere on November 15.

CTOnews.com, November 14, according to the China manned Space Engineering Office, the Tianzhou IV cargo spacecraft, which had previously evacuated the space station assembly, will be controlled to re-enter the atmosphere on November 15, 2022, Beijing time. Most of the spacecraft's devices will be ablated and destroyed during re-entry, and a small amount of wreckage will fall into the intended safe waters of the South Pacific.

CTOnews.com learned that 01:56 on May 10, 2022, Beijing time, the long March 7 Yao-5 carrier rocket carrying the Tianzhou IV cargo spacecraft was ignited and launched from China's Wenchang space launch site. About 10 minutes later, the spacecraft successfully separated from the rocket and entered the scheduled orbit. 02:23, the solar panels of the spacecraft started work smoothly and the launch was a complete success. After about 6.5 hours, Tianzhou-4 successfully completed the back docking with the core module of the space station. This is the first launch of a space station construction mission in 2022, officially opening the curtain on the full construction of China's space station.

14:55 on November 9, the Tianzhou IV cargo spacecraft, which had completed its scheduled mission, successfully evacuated the space station assembly and entered the independent flight phase.

The Tianzhou IV cargo ship delivered about 6 tons of supplies to the space station.