China Launches Mengtian, the Last Major Module to its Space Station universetoday storybywill
and saw the module launch atop a Long March-5B rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern Hainan province. The launch began at 03:37 PM Beijing Time and separated from its launcher about eight minutes later and entered Low Earth Orbit . Hours later, Mengtian rendezvoused and docked with Tiangong, fulfilling China’s goal of completing the space station by the end of this year.
China’s space station is the third installment in China’s Tiangong program, which began with the launch ofin September 2011. The launch of Tiangong-2 followed in September 2016 – a few months before its predecessor was deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere – and deorbited by July 2019.
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