The new module, which will function as a node cabin, will have multiple docking ports like the core module Tianhe, allowing the space station to accommodate more spaceships, according to the CMSA.
The agency added that China plans to extend the in-orbit operation of its space station by implementing updates and upgrades.
The exhibition also showcased China's development of a new-generation reusable near-Earth crewed spacecraft with the capacity to carry four to seven astronauts into space and bring back over 700 kilogram of payloads to Earth. The country's existing spaceship can launch three astronauts into space and bring back 50 kilogram of payloads.
The space station will shift its priority from technological breakthroughs in the building stage to the performance of space applications. A slew of experiments is currently underway or poised to begin, in the space station. Some of them are aimed at figuring out how to resist microbes that may damage spacecraft metals, produce oxygen from algae in space, and convert heat energy into electricity.
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It’s been very nice seeing China’s relatively rapid development of its space industry. The Russians on their other hand haven’t really developed anything new since the fall of the Soviet Union. There is the Angara project which is interesting but hasn’t launched anything of importance yet.
A lot of their rocket tech was in Ukraine too, so it's unlikely that Russia will accomplish anything in the near term besides providing launches on Soyuz to other space orgs.
Yeah I guess a lot of the technology and supply chain developed for Energyia and Zenit was in Ukraine which really set them back.
The Russians on their other hand haven’t really developed anything new since the fall of the Soviet Union.
My man, AMERICA hasn't really developed anything new since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Whenever I see China’s plans, they’re always super specific. Exact length of rails, exact amount of material expected, exact speed expected, their goals for these plans, and a specific date that they wish to accomplish their plans by.
Yet the western reports about them are always filled with mystery and suspicion. And every plan I’ve seen from Anglo countries is just “The president calls for more support for new local industries.” Its super vague. Just platitudes. And then no one cares or remembers and you might read about their progress in some obscure paper like The Daily Idahoian Report, and 5 years later you find out they never got out of the pre-planning phase. And then they just keep circling back to the same promises, presumably because they forgot that they already promised it 5 years ago.
The west can't plan further than the next financial quarter, that's why.
China is using this space station to do satanism in space, we need to shoot it down then nuke China :i-voted:
Two top posts beside each one one saying China is vague on public disclosure of details the other saying they're always super specific.
Is this the new leftist infighting topic? :thinkin-lenin:
Wonder what that reusable launch vehicle will be. Conventional rockets, or another spaceplane?
I'm interested in the banking on the Long March 10 instead of the planned super-heavy Long March 9. It makes sense, in that it'd be more practical for LEO operations and possibly speed up the development of a lunar mission, but it does seem like a bit of a retreat on that front.
