The core module space station of China and its young team of developers located in the centre of attention, triggering speculation that the space station of China will be possible only in orbit after 2024.
The module is tested at the factory space of the city municipality of North China Tianjin, China Central television (CCTV) on Saturday, which first module was publicly shown.
With the main command compartment, a large cylinder and small cylinder, the main module will work for flight controls, power System and life support system of the whole station, and also to provide space for Astronauts to work, experiment and others, Zhang Hao, the designer of the space station, was named by CCTV as saying.
Full space station will consist of one base unit and two experiment modules, each of which weighs over 20 tons, and can be connected with two manned spacecraft and one cargo spacecraft, surveillance, reports.
The station will also feature a robot arm to aid in installing or removing equipment inside the station when he floats in space, Jiao Weixin, a space science Professor at Peking University, told the newspaper “global times” on Sunday.
“If the spacecraft Shenzhou car, Tiangong 1 and Tiangong-2 can be considered a one bedroom. While space station with three bedrooms, one living room and a warehouse,” said Zhu Guangchen, Deputy chief designer of the space station.
Zhu joined the development team of the project in 1995, when China withdrew from the International space station (ISS) with participation of 16 countries.
The average age of the current team project development space station China is about 35, said Zhu.
“Due to the failure in 1995, China now owns technological study of the entire system of the space station. It is possible that the space station of China will be the only workstation after 2024, when the ISS is expected to resign and China will dominate in the conduct of space experiments,” said Jiao.
Astronaut center of China in Beijing on Friday announced that astronaut training tasks that will be done on the space station began, which include underwater exercises and training for survival in the wilderness, Chinese news service reported.
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