With the station's completion, the country now has a long-term platform in orbit.
the neighborhood in low Earth orbit has now officially doubled. On October 31, China launched the final piece of its new Tiangong space station, completing its construction.
It’s a significant accomplishment for China’s rapidly growing space program, which plans to build a base on the moon, deploy a lunar rover, and send new landers and orbiters to Mars. It’s also the first long-term neighbor the International Space Station has had since Russia’s Mir station was deorbited in 2001. “This is important for the Chinese space program. The International Space Station won’t run for much longer.
Representatives from the China National Space Administration, the Chinese space program, did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment but did refer toThroughout humanity’s history of space exploration and crewed spaceflight, those activities have been dominated by the US and its allies—including Europe, Canada, and Japan—and by Russia, whose. China has now accomplished what Russia and the US did a few decades ago, and it did so quickly, on its own, with some improvements over previous designs.
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