Chinese Space Station 2020

Updated 4 56 pm et mon may 11 2020 china launched its long march 5b rocket with an unmanned prototype spacecraft on may 5.
Chinese space station 2020. The chinese large modular space station is a planned space station to be placed in low earth orbit. The first stage was manned space launches realized in 2003 when yang liwei became the first chinese national to enter space and the second phase of conducting extravehicular activities or a space walk as well as a rendezvous mission was achieved in 2008 during the shenzhou 7 mission and in 2017 with the tiangong 2 space lab. China plans to complete space station by 2022. The chinese station is expected to have a mass between 80 and 100 tonnes.
The planned chinese space station will be roughly one fifth the mass of the international space station and about the size of the decommissioned russian mir space station. Details space laboratory phase. Chinese efforts to develop leo space station capabilities will begin with a space laboratory phase with the launch of three tiangong test vehicles later reduced to two. The station s stated aim is peaceful space observation and exploration and according to chinese media it played a key role in china landing a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon last year.
Operations will be controlled from the beijing aerospace command and control center in china. The planned launch date of the core module the tianhe is 2. Nasa chief warns about china s space station. The docking system of the.
China will begin constructing its space station in 2021 2020 june 8 retrieved 12 october 2020 from https. Cnn one of the largest pieces of uncontrolled space debris fell back. Provided by universe today. China s new crew spacecraft looks like it could dock with the international space station by andrew jones march 30 2020 but that s not possible politically at the moment.
With the international space station due to be decommissioned in 2030 nasa is worried about beijing gaining a strategic advantage over the u s.