Thanks for the info. Do we have any plausible explanation why the apogee is so high? Just being curious. As far as I know, all planned crewed missions will be launched to LEO, especially to the future Tianhe Space Station.
The new Chinese crew S/C has moved again with the spacecraft now at a 523 x 6278 km x 42.9° orbit. This is already higher than the 5800 km apogee reached by Orion EFT-1 in 2014. Additional orbit raises before the straight down re-entry tomorrow at ~05:00 UTC may still happen.
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The new spacecraft will be in two variants. One for LEO, one beyond. The high apogee is to test in that environment and also testing a high-velocity reentry for future beyond-LEO (i.e. lunar) missions.
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