Ye Guangfu

Ye Guangfu

叶光富

Ye in 2021

Born

September 1980 (age 44)

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Status

Active

Space career

PLAAC astronaut

Previous occupation

Fighter pilot, PLAAF

Rank

Senior Colonel, PLASSF

Time in space

374 days, 13 hours and 58 minutes

Selection

Chinese Group 2

Total EVAs

2

Total EVA time

14 hours, 34 minutes^[1]

Missions

Shenzhou 13, Shenzhou 18

Chinese name

Simplified Chinese

叶光富

Traditional Chinese

葉光富

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yè Guāngfù

Ye Guangfu (Chinese: 叶光富; pinyin: Yè Guāngfù; born September 1980)^[2] is a Chinese fighter pilot and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. A veteran of the Shenzhou 13 and Shenzhou 18 missions, he is the current Chinese record holder for longest spaceflight duration and the first taikonaut to spend over a year in space.^[3]

Biography

Ye was born in a rural village Shuangliu County, Sichuan to an ordinary family of farmers in September 1980.^[4]^[5] He has an elder sister.^[4] His father died when Ye was 8, and he helped with farm work from childhood.^[4] Ye's elementary education was at Wan'an Middle School (万安中学) and secondary education at Taiping High School (太平中学).^[4]

Career

As a People's Liberation Army Air Force pilot, Ye spent four years as an instructor and four years as a jet fighter pilot and amassed a total of 1,100 hours of flight time. He was selected to join the second batch of Chinese astronauts in 2010 and qualified in 2014.^[6]^[7]

Ye made his first public appearance after participating in the ESA CAVES mission of 2016 organised by the ESA, making him the first Chinese participant of such an event.^[8]

He was part of the backup crew for Shenzhou 12,^[9] and flew on Shenzhou 13 to the Tiangong space station.^[10] On 26 November 2021, Ye and Shenzhou 13 commander Zhai Zhigang carried out the second EVA of the mission, marking Ye's first spacewalk and Zhai's third.^[11]

Ye was the commander of the Shenzhou 18 mission to Tiangong, which launched on 25 April 2024. On 28 May 2024, Ye Guangfu along with his Shenzhou 18 crew mate Li Guangsu carried out China's longest spacewalk yet, spending about 8.5 hours on tasks including the installation of the space station's space debris protection device.^[12]

Personal life

Ye is married and has a son and a daughter.^[4]^[13] His father-in-law is a pilot.^[4]

Apart from his native language Chinese, he is also fluent in English and Russian.

See also

List of Chinese astronauts

References

^ "Ye Guangfu - EVA". spacefacts.de. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
^ "Taikonaut Biography: Ye Guangfu". 20 June 2021. Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
^ https://www.timesnownews.com/world/asia/this-man-becomes-first-chinese-person-to-complete-one-year-in-space-video-article-114683021
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Zhan Kang (占康) (2002). 航天员叶光富：首战即大考 [Astronaut Ye Guangfu: the First Battle is the Great Exam]. Celebrities' Biographies (in Chinese). 595. Zhengzhou, Henan: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House: 84–89. ISSN 1002-6282.
^ "Zhōngguó hángtiānyuán Yè Guāngfù shǒucì liàngxiàng, 6 tiān 6 yè tàn mì Sādīngdǎo dòngxué" 中国航天员叶光富首次亮相 6天6夜探秘撒丁岛洞穴 [Chinese Astronaut Ye Guangfu Makes His First Appearance, Exploring Sardinian Caves for 6 Days and 6 Nights]. 中国新闻网 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
^ "Cosmonaut Selection: China". spacefacts.de. 16 June 2021. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ "Ye Guangfu". European Space Agency. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
^ Shen, Feng; Li, Guoli (15 October 2021). "Profile: Ye Guangfu, a new face in China's space mission". Xinhua News Agency. Jiuquan. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
^ "China unveils Shenzhou-12 astronauts for space station construction". Xinhua News Agency. Jiuquan. 16 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ Li, Yan, ed. (14 October 2021). "China unveils Shenzhou-13 crew for six-month space station mission". ecns.cn. Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on 7 April 2024.
^ Davenport, Justin (26 December 2021). "Shenzhou-13 crew conducts second spacewalk of mission". NASASpaceflight.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
^ Wall, Mike (28 May 2024). "Chinese astronauts perform record-breaking spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (video)". Space.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024.
^ "2022年叶光富儿子是学霸吗其老婆及家人资料照片公布". nitnews.nyist.net. Retrieved 16 April 2022.

External links

Spacefacts biography of Ye Guangfu

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Tianzhou missions

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Spaceports and landing sites	Jiuquan Taiyuan Wenchang Xichang Siziwang Banner (landing site)
Launch vehicles	Long March 1 Long March 2 Long March 3 Long March 3A Long March 3B Long March 3C Long March 4 Long March 4A Long March 4B Long March 4C Long March 5 Long March 6 Long March 7 Long March 8 Long March 9 (In development) Long March 10 (In development) Long March 11 Long March 12 Kuaizhou Kaituozhe
Exploration programs	Shuguang (cancelled) CMS (human spaceflight) Chang'e (lunar exploration) Tiangong (space station) Tianwen (interplanetary exploration)

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Planetary science	Chang'e 1 (2007–09) Chang'e 2 (2010–present) Yinghuo 1† (2011) Chang'e 3 (2013–present) Chang'e 5-T1 (2014–present) Yutu rover (2013–2016) Chang'e 4 (2018–present) Yutu-2 rover (2018–present) Tianwen-1 (2020–present) Chang'e 5 (2020–present) Zhurong rover (2021–present) Chang'e 6 (2024) Tianwen-2 (2025) Chang'e 7 (2026) Chang'e 8 (2028) Tianwen-3 (2028) Tianwen-4 (2029)
Astronomy and cosmology	DAMPE (2015–present) HXMT (2017–present) GECAM (2020–present) CHASE (2021–present) ASO-S (2022–present) Einstein Probe (2024–present) SVOM (2024–present) Xuntian (2026) Space Solar Telescope
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Human
spaceflight

Uncrewed expeditions	Shenzhou 1 Shenzhou 2 Shenzhou 3 Shenzhou 4 Shenzhou 8
Crewed expeditions	Shenzhou 5 Shenzhou 6 Shenzhou 7 Shenzhou 9 Shenzhou 10 Shenzhou 11 Shenzhou 12 Shenzhou 13 Shenzhou 14 Shenzhou 15 Shenzhou 16 Shenzhou 17 Shenzhou 18 (List of Chinese astronauts)
Space laboratories and cargos	Tiangong 1 (2011–2018) Tiangong 2 (2016–2019) Tianzhou 1 (2017) Tianzhou 2 (2021) Tianzhou 3 (2021) Tianzhou 4 (2022) Tianzhou 5 (2022) Tianzhou 6 (2023)
Tiangong space station modules	Tianhe (2021–present) Wentian (2022–present) Mengtian (2022–present)

Navigation

BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS)

Telecommunications

Apstar Series (1994–present)
Chinasat Series (1994–present)
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Tiandu 1 and 2 (2024–present)
Tianlian I (2008–present)
Tianlian II (2019–present)
Qianfan (2024–present)
Queqiao 2 (2024–present)

Technology
demonstrators

Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft (2020)
FSW Program (1969–2006)
QUESS (2016–present)
Shijian Series (1971–present)
XPNAV 1 (2016–present)

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