Chinese Space Station Inside
The module was launched in 2011 and hosted two crews of taikonauts chinese astronauts in 2012 and.
Chinese space station inside. Shenzhou ˈ ʃ ɛ n ˈ dʒ oʊ. Its design resembles the russian soyuz spacecraft but it is larger in size the first launch was on 19 november 1999 and the. Shénzhōu is a spacecraft developed and operated by china using soyuz technology to support its crewed spaceflight program.
China s first space station the one room tiangong 1 launched in 2011 and burned up in earth s atmosphere seven years later. The name is variously translated as divine vessel divine craft or divine ship. The chinese large modular space station is a planned space station to be placed in low earth orbit.
The chinese station is expected to have a mass between 80 and 100 tonnes. Nie haisheng is helped out of his shenzhou 10 spacecraft after a 15 day mission in 2013. In it the chinese space agency says the station will become the main scientific and technological laboratory in low earth orbit here s a glimpse inside the construction and operation of the.
Space station ses 1 noaa 19 goes 13 noaa 15 noaa 18 terra aqua metop b suomi npp goes 15 fox 1a ao 85 saudisat 1c kms 4 tiangong 1 meteor m2 asiasat 3s nss 12 agile measat 3b more. The planned launch date of the core module the tianhe is 2. The vehicle helped china master the technologies and procedures needed.
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. Operations will be controlled from the beijing aerospace command and control center in china. The silly reason the chinese aren t allowed on the space station welcome home.
Inside is a research and educational facility for budding astronauts and the latest manifestation of beijing s bid to position itself as a leading space power. Cnn s david mckenzie takes us inside china s space city where we meet three chinese astronauts and get a peek at china s most expensive and ambitious proje.