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China launches Tianhe module, start of ambitious two-year station construction effort
April 28, 2021
China launched a Chang Zheng 5B rocket with the Tianhe station core module to low Earth orbit, marking the start of an ambitious two year construction effort of the nation’s new multi-module space station.
Liftoff of the historic mission occurred at 23:18 EDT on Wednesday, 28 April which was 03:18 UTC on Thursday, 29 April from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Province island, People’s Republic of China.
Tianhe seeks “harmony of the heavens”
Tianhe, “harmony of the heavens”, will be the bedrock of the Chinese Space Station (CSS), like Zarya was for the International Space Station in 1998. However, Tianhe is based heavily on the Functional Cargo Block (FGB) elements of the Russian space program which formed the core of Mir and which serves as the grounding design of the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station.
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China poses longer-range threat, says USSPACECOM chief
21 April 2021
by Gabriel Dominguez
As the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) continues to modernise, an increasingly capable and lethal Chinese joint force “will almost certainly be able to hold US and allied forces at risk at greater distances from the Chinese mainland”, US Army General James Dickinson, the commander of the US Space Command (USSPACECOM), said on 20 April.
In a written statement to the US Senate Armed Services Committee the commander said that China, which poses “a major security challenge and remains a long-term strategic competitor to the United States”, is focused on developing and fielding advanced military capabilities in all warfighting domains to build what it terms a ”world-class military”.
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