Space
The Tiangong abstraction station, China’s orbiting laboratory, was completed past twelvemonth – present it has been photographed successful afloat for the archetypal time
By Alex Wilkins
China’s Tiangong abstraction station, photographed from the Shenzhou spacecraft China Manned Space
China’s Tiangong space station has been photographed successful its implicit signifier for the archetypal time. The vertiginous photograph was taken from the Shenzhou spacecraft arsenic it made its mode backmost to Earth aft delivering 3 unit members to the abstraction station.
Tiangong is afloat operational, aft the 3rd and last module, Mengtian, was attached precocious past year. This module, astatine the apical of the image, and Wentian , astatine the bottom, are some laboratory modules. The Tianhe module, astatine the centre of the photo, contains astronauts’ surviving quarters and a docking hub.
The abstraction station’s main intent is for technological research: the China Manned Space Agency has approved much than 1000 experiments to beryllium performed successful microgravity, connected questions specified arsenic however plants turn successful abstraction and however fluids flow. The 3 Chinese astronauts presently aboard the abstraction presumption arrived successful precocious October and volition enactment determination for six months.
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