 Verfasst am: 06. Jun 2022 06:12 Titel: How China plans to become the next big space power |
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| How China plans to become the next big space power Three Chinese astronauts have begun a six-month mission, to work on the country's new space station. Sign up SLOTXO for membership with us, spin the website slots straight. You'll find the best way to play slot games. It is China's latest step towards making itself a leading space power for the decades ahead. What is the Tiangong space station? Last year, China put into orbit the first module of its Tiangong or "Heavenly Palace" space station. It plans to add more modules, such as Mengtian science lab, by the end of the year. Next year, it will launch a space telescope, called Xuntian. This will fly close to the space station, and dock with it for servicing and refuelling. Tiangong will have its own power, propulsion, life support systems and living quarters. China is only the third country in history to have put both astronauts into space and to build a space station, after the Soviet Union (and now Russia) and the US. China's plans to reach the Moon and Mars China's ambitions do not end there. A few years from now it wants to take samples from asteroids near the Earth. By 2030, it aims to have put its first astronauts on the Moon, and to have sent probes to collect samples from Mars and Jupiter. What are other countries doing? As China expands its role in space, several other countries are also aiming to get to the Moon. Nasa plans to return to the Moon with astronauts from the US and other countries from 2025 onwards and has already rolled its new giant SLS rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, Japan, South Korea, Russia, India, the United Arab Emirates are also working on their own lunar missions. India has launched its second major Moon mission already and wants to have its own space station by 2030. Meanwhile, the European Space Agency, which is working with Nasa on Moon missions, is also planning a network of lunar satellites to make it easier for astronauts to communicate with Earth. |
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