SND efforts behind Shenzhou XIV space mission

The Shenzhou XIV mission – China's ninth manned spaceflight – launched on June 5 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gobi Desert.

A Long March 2F rocket carrying the spacecraft blasted off at 10:44 am from a service tower inside the oasis-like launch center.

The three crew members – mission commander Senior Colonel Chen Dong, Senior Colonel Liu Yang and Senior Colonel Cai Xuzhe – are being sent to the Tiangong space station. They are scheduled to stay there for half a year.

According to Suzhou media outlets, a number of companies and institutes based in Suzhou New District have contributed to the successful launch of the spacecraft.

The Institute of Technology Transfer of Zhejiang University developed a physiological parameter monitoring system for the taikonauts, which include a 12-lead dynamic electrocardiogram monitoring recorder, a hemodynamic monitor, a sleep monitor, and a dynamic blood pressure monitor.

It has been reported that before carrying out there tasks, evaluating taikonauts' sleep quality is one of the most important ways to determine they can carry out their duties properly, while the sleep monitor developed by the institute has achieved the lowest disturbance among medical sleep monitors.

The Suzhou R&D Center of the No 214 Institute of China North Industries Group has provided six circuit boards for docking between Shenzhou XIV and the core module of the space station, including a pressure sensor, a brush DC motor drive circuit, and a stepping motor driver circuit.

Suzhou Xubo Testing Service Co, which has carried out rigorous reliability testing for the Long March 2F rocket before its launch, has helped the spacecraft secure its internationally leading role in the reliability of its propulsion mechanism and power system.