Chinese Space Station 2020
The heavenly palace station will house six people and serve as a test bed for experiments on astronomy technology and more.
Chinese space station 2020. Heavens palace is a space station program of the peoples republic of china with the goal of creating a modular space station comparable to mirthis program is independent and unconnected to any other international space active countries. China has outlined plans to build an orbiting science lab by 2023. Chinas first prototype space station tiangong 1 will come crashing back to earth between march 30 and april 3 give or take a few days experts say. Heres a primer on the space lab and its.
China launches prototype for manned space station construction of chinas manned space station has moved a step closer with the successful maiden flight of its carrier rocket the long march 5b. China has unveiled plans to launch a 60 ton space station by 2020 and invited suggestions from the public to assign a suitable name for the mission. The china aerospace science and technology corporation casc has confirmed the maiden launch and said. Space news pod 3256304 views 11147.
The 60 ton space station is rather small compared to the international space station 419 tonsand russias mir space station 137 tonswhich served between 1996 and 2001 said pang zhihaoa researcher and deputy editor in chief of the. The rocket the prototype core capsule of the space station and the. 20 xinhua the maiden flight of the long march 5b rocket carrying a trial version of chinas new generation manned spaceship is expected to take place in april indicating the imminent start of construction of chinas space station. Spacex crew dragon launch docking and returns to earth from iss international space station mar 8 duration.