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In November 2016 Shenzhou 11 rendezvoused with China’s second space station, Tiangong-2, and the 33-day mission by Jing Haiping and Chen Dong was the longest for that nation to-date.
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The mass of a FemtoSat is between 10g and 100g. A PicoSat is between 100g and 1,000g (1kg). A NanoSat is between 1kg and 10kg. A MicroSat is between 10kg and 100kg. A Small Satellite or MiniSat is between 100kg and 500kg.
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At the time of writing in September 2018 this was still the longest Russian spacewalk. The longest-ever spacewalk was by James Voss and Susan Helms on 11 March 2001. That was the first spacewalk of the STS-102 mission and it lasted 8 hours and 56 minutes.
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Ochoa flew as mission specialist on four Shuttle missions: STS-56 on Discovery in 1993, STS-66 on Atlantis in 1994, STS-96 on Discovery in 1999, and STS-110 on Atlantis in 2002.
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O’Sullivan, J. (2019). Soyuz MS-07, Expeditions 54 and 55. In: Japanese Missions to the International Space Station. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04534-0_15
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