China's New Space Station Is a Stepping-Stone to Achieving Broader Ambitions | Center for Strategic and International Studies
April 29, 2021 Space has long been the province of major powers. Only a handful of countries possess the resources and technological capabilities needed to conduct orbital space launches, and even fewer—the United States, Russia, and China alone—have launched humans into space. On April 29, China deployed the first module of the new Chinese Space Station (CSS), cementing China’s status as one of the world’s leading space powers. While a major success in its own right, the CSS will also ...
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