CGTN:Tianhe lifts off China s space station ambition
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BEIJING, April 29, 2021 /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.
CGTN:Tianhe lifts off China s space station ambition
BEIJING, April 29, 2021 /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 sHainan 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.
To Mars and beyond, cosmic journey continues By ZHANG ZHOUXIANG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-26 07:58 Photo taken on April 23, 2021 shows the combination of the core module of China s space station, Tianhe, and the Long March-5B Y2 rocket after it was transported to the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in South China s Hainan province. [Photo/Xinhua]
Saturday marks the sixth Space Day of China. Five years after it was established in 2016, the nation has made tremendous progress in various aspects of space exploration.
On the first Space Day in 2016, Tiangong 1 space lab, China s first, had just finished its mission and fallen into the atmosphere. Tiangong 2 would not be launched until five months later. Now, with all the data collected from the two pioneers, Tianhe, the core capsule of China s multimodule space station Tiangong is already in the launch tower, and the whole space station is expected to be fully operatio
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