China s space project aiming for a manned flight as well as the construction of a space station has entered a new stage where it is ready for launching the core module of the space station, a cargo and refueling craft as well as a crewed mission into space, China Manned Space Engineering Office said on Thursday.
Coming Soon: China’s Space Station Hegemony
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By late April or early May, it’s expected that China will have started the construction of its first large space station. Given its importance to the larger ambitions of the regime in Beijing, it should be called Space Station Hegemony.
“China’s space station construction has come close to the implementation stage,” the Global Times reported on Jan. 14, citing the China Manned Space Engineering Office.
The Global Times also stated that “China will carry out 11 launches, including four manned spaceships and four cargo spaceship flights in the next two years, as it aims to complete the building of the country’s first space station by around 2022.”
2021-01-15 03:30:03 GMT2021-01-15 11:30:03(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
Photo taken on Nov. 5, 2018 shows a full-size model of the core module of China's space station Tianhe exhibited at the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)
The core module of China s planned space station has passed a factory review, along with the project s Tianzhou-2 cargo craft and the core module mission products of the space application systems, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said Thursday.
The completion of the factory review, conducted by experts at China s manned space program, means the construction project of the country s space station will now enter the implementation phase, the CMSEO statement said.
BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. SPACE CORE MODULE The core module of China planned sp
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Components for the Long March 5B rocket that will launch the core module of China’s space station. Credit: CASC
The core section of China’s space station is scheduled to launch in the next several months, the first of 11 missions carrying lab elements, cargo, and astronauts to the fledgling outpost over the next two years, according to Chinese space program officials.