Continuing to work on establishing its own space station, China sent three more tachonauts to the station. So what will be the task of the taikonauts at the station?
China, the world’s second largest economy, has entered the struggle to establish its own space station in the recent times when the space race has intensified and started working. In this context, taikonauts were regularly sent into space. Within the scope of the rapidly continuing studies, the last day three more taikonauts Arrived at China’s own space station.
According to the information shared by China, the three taikonauts were launched with a Long March-2F rocket from Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi desert of China on Monday at 05:44. astronauts, It entered the Tiangong Space Station at 15:50 CEST. It was announced that the journey of the astronauts took about 7 hours.
What will the taikonauts do at the station?
China’s Tiangong Space Station is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of this year. Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, the three taikonauts who have just arrived at the space station, will be responsible for combining the two lab modules with the main body of the station. It is aimed that the team will spend 6 months at the station and return to Earth in April.
In addition to its own space station, China also aims to establish its own base on the Moon. country, A manned mission to the Moon in 2029 plans to implement. In addition, the country continues its plans to send a spacecraft to Mars.
So why is China building its own space station?
China became the United States of America in 2011. On NASA banning relations with China He was banned from the International Space Station. Although the country is not currently partnering with any country for the station, it also stated that it is open to cooperation on this issue.
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