Beijing to launch 3 astronauts to its space station
- November 29, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Beijing to launch 3 astronauts to its space station
Subject :Science and Technology
Context:
- China will be sending a three-person crew its under-construction space station
More about the launch:
- The spaceship will take three astronautse Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu to carry out the spaceflight mission.
- Fei Junlong will be the commander of the mission.
- The crew will stay in orbit for about six months, a period in which the construction of the low-orbit space station is expected to be completed.
- This is the third manned mission to be launched by China to link up with its space station.
What is the Tiangong Space Station:
- The Tiangong space station is a Chinese space station built in low Earth orbit between 340 and 450 kilometers above the earth.
- It is part of China Manned Space Program and is the country’s first long-term space station.
- The three module of the Tiangong Space Station are
- The Tianhe means “Harmony of the Heavens” is the core module.
- Wentian means “Quest for the Heavens” is alaboratory cabin module.
- Mengtian means “Dreaming of the Heavens” is a laboratory module.
- With the fully functioning of the Space station China will become only the third country in history to have put both astronauts into space and to build a space station, after Russia and the US.
- It is one-fifth the mass of the International Space Station