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Work starts on China's first manned space station
By Li Xinran |
October 27, 2010, Wednesday
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CHINA has started its manned space station project to set up a "relatively large" manned space laboratory around 2020, official media cited an unnamed spokesperson for the national manned space program.
The project will be implemented in two phases – space laboratory initially and then space station.
China will develop and launch space laboratories ahead of 2016 to master key technologies, including the mid-term station of astronauts, and carry out small-scale space applications.
The next step is to send a core module and two lab modules to form into a manned space station in orbit and to develop technologies for the construction and operation of the near-earth space station complex, and for long-term manned space flight and large-scale space applications, the spokesperson said.
The project will adopt the existing series of Shenzhou spaceship, Long March 2F carrier rocket, the launch pad and the landing site, introduced the spokesperson.
China's first space laboratory is expected to remotely dock a domestic spacecraft next year as the country's first attempt.
The Tiangong 1 space module, an 8-ton "target vehicle," is scheduled for launch early next year to reach its orbit ahead of the unmanned docking attempt by Shenzhen 8 spacecraft months later.
The Shenzhou 8 will blast off on a Long March 2F rocket in the second half of 2011 to complete the mission prior to China's first manned docking between its successor Shenzhou 9 and Tiangong 1 the same year.
The project will be implemented in two phases – space laboratory initially and then space station.
China will develop and launch space laboratories ahead of 2016 to master key technologies, including the mid-term station of astronauts, and carry out small-scale space applications.
The next step is to send a core module and two lab modules to form into a manned space station in orbit and to develop technologies for the construction and operation of the near-earth space station complex, and for long-term manned space flight and large-scale space applications, the spokesperson said.
The project will adopt the existing series of Shenzhou spaceship, Long March 2F carrier rocket, the launch pad and the landing site, introduced the spokesperson.
China's first space laboratory is expected to remotely dock a domestic spacecraft next year as the country's first attempt.
The Tiangong 1 space module, an 8-ton "target vehicle," is scheduled for launch early next year to reach its orbit ahead of the unmanned docking attempt by Shenzhen 8 spacecraft months later.
The Shenzhou 8 will blast off on a Long March 2F rocket in the second half of 2011 to complete the mission prior to China's first manned docking between its successor Shenzhou 9 and Tiangong 1 the same year.
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