SIZIWANG BANNER, Inner Mongolia, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- China has
successfully conducted five drills of Shenzhou-6's landing system to get well
prepared for the spacecraft's recovery, experts told amobilization rally here
Saturday.
Li Dongheng, commander of search and rescue mission, said the spacecraft
will return to the primary landing area in Siziwang Banner (county) of north
China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as designated, urging all the searchers
and rescuers to get ready to fulfill mission.
Sui Qisheng, commander-in-chief of the landing system, said that all
concerned systems and equipments works well so far, and five drills have been
conducted to improve the searching speedand efficiency so as to find out the
re-entry capsule and provide the astronauts with necessary rescue as soon as
Shenzhou-6 lands.
According to weather forecast, the primary landing area will enjoy fair
weather condition in next few days, which can meet the requirements for the
spacecraft to return and land.
The landing system of China's manned spaceflight programme is the third one
in the world after the United States and Russia, said Hou Ying, chief designer
of landing system.
The landing system is composed of the main landing field, the standby
landing field, and a number of other emergency landing sites, which are equipped
with advanced radio measuring systems to help monitor the movements of the
return capsule.
Since China decided to begin its manned spaceflight programme in 1990s, the
country has managed to resolve problems in setting up its own search and rescue
system, Hou said.
"China's landing system of spacecraft has been improved gradually and made
remarkable achievements with the successful space flight of previous five
Shenzhou series," Hou added.