China Space Station

2026-02-11 09:12

The Chinese Space Station, also known as the Tiangong Space Station, was a multi-module space station independently designed and built by China. It was the third multi-module space station in the world. It operated in a low-Earth orbit 400 kilometers above the ground with an inclination of 41° to 43°. The orbital period was about 90 minutes and the designed in-orbit operation life was more than 10 years. Its basic configuration was a three-cabin "T" configuration, consisting of the core module "Tianhe", the experiment module I "Ask the Sky" and the experiment module II "Dream Sky"."Tianhe" was in the middle, looking along the flight direction, the "Ask the Sky" module was on the right, and the "Dream Sky" module was on the left. The three-cabin configuration weighed about 68.5 tons, with a rated crew of three, and up to six people when rotating. China's space station originated from the third step of China's three-step strategic plan for manned spaceflight. It was also the mission goal of the space station phase of China's space station project. The project was approved on September 25, 2010. The launch of the Tianhe Core module on April 29, 2021 marked the official start of the construction mission. On July 4, 2022 and October 31, 2022, the Ask the Sky and Dream Sky experimental modules were launched into orbit and completed the docking and rotation, announcing the completion of the basic configuration. On November 29,2022, after the Shenzhou-15 manned spacecraft was launched into orbit, the space station's key technology verification and construction phase 12 launch missions were successfully completed. It entered the application and development phase and began normal operations. In June 2023, the "three-cabin three-ship" configuration was realized. On December 20, it was selected as "2023 Top Ten Global Engineering Achievement". On January 12,2024, the Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft withdrew from the space station assembly. In March, the first batch of material exposure experiments were completed. In 2024, it entered the normal operation mode. In terms of language usage, the China space station used Chinese, including operation pages, design documents, aerospace operation manuals, coordination procedures between heaven and earth, and fault handling. This was because Chinese was the most direct, accurate, and safe language to communicate with. In addition, the Rosefinch III rocket was expected to begin the launch mission of the China Space Station's commercial upstream cargo system in 2026. At present, the China Space Station's cargo spacecraft launch was mainly based on the Long March 7 rocket. The novel " Hundred Years of Spaceship " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!