CGTN America: China Launches the Core Module of its Space Station
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CGTN has released video footage of the Tianhe launch, the core module for China’s first low-Earth orbital space station.
China’s first space station Tiangong, which means heavenly palace in Chinese, is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2022. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) May 03, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (This material is distributed by MediaLinks TV, LLC on behalf of CCTV. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)
CGTN has released video footage of the Tianhe launch, the core module for China’s first low-Earth orbital space station. The launch took place at 11:23 am Beijing time on April 29, 2021 and 494 seconds later entered its planned orbit.
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CGTN: Tianhe lifts off China s space station ambition
BEIJING, April 29. /PRNewswire/ The construction of China s own space station is underway, with the core module Tianhe, which means heavenly harmony, sent into space Thursday, kicking off a series of key launch missions that aim to complete the construction of the station by the end of 2022.
Tianhe was carried into space by a Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of south China s Hainan Province. It is the first of 11 missions to build and supply the space station.
Tianhe will act as the foundational module for China s first space station in low-Earth orbit named Tiangong, which means heavenly palace in Chinese.
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Daily Times
April 29, 2021
China first observed its Space Day on April 24, 2016, to commemorate the anniversary of the country’s first-ever satellite launch, Dongfanghong-1, back in 1970. This year, festivities kicked off in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, under the theme: Voyaging into space, pursuing dreams. This was particularly apt given that the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and its Russian counterpart used the occasion to announce collaboration on establishing the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). This has been welcomed by both scientists and space enthusiasts around the world, not least because the project is open to international cooperation.
There is much for Beijing to celebrate, including the upcoming landing of its first independent Mars probe. The Tianwen-1 and the craft reached Mars’ orbit this February and is expected to ‘touch base’ at the Utopia Planitia in mid- or late May. This is not to forget the construction of the Ch