According to reports, astronauts Ye Guangfu and Li Kang set up this protection. His colleague Li Guangsu helped in the mission by staying inside the space station. All three astronauts are part of the Shenzhou 18 mission.
The main task of the July 3 mission was to install a protection on the laboratory outside the space station, so that it could be protected from damage by space debris. According to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, safety instruments were installed in many instruments outside the space stations such as cables and pipelines. By doing this, the space station will be kept safe for a longer time and there will be less problems in its operation.
Earlier in the month of May also, ‘Ye Guangfu’ and ‘Li Guangsu’ had worked for about 8.5 hours outside Tiangong Station on May 28. During that spacewalk, Ye and Li installed a device to protect the space station from space debris. Its name is space debris protection device. The astronauts also checked other instruments present there.
It is noteworthy that a few months ago, solar arrays were damaged due to space debris at Tiangong Space Station and power supply was partially disrupted.
China’s space station is at an altitude of 340 to 450 kilometers above the earth. For the first time in the year 2021, a team of astronauts reached the Tiangong Space Station and spent 90 days there. Then the first part of the space station was completed. The second and third units of the space station were launched last year and this year.