Tiangong is completed! Here are the first images of the Chinese space station

Crew Chinese mission Shenzhou-16 panoramic photos taken Tiangong Space Station when they returned to Earth on October 30.

The images taken by the high-definition camera are the first to capture Tiangong’s full structure since it entered orbit and were released by CMS (China Manned Spacecraft).

The First Tiangong Squad, known as Tianhereached low Earth orbit in 2021. Its first crew, Shenzhou 12, arrived at the space station on June 16, 2021, for a 90-day mission.

The second and third blocks of the space station, Wentian And Mengtian, were released in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Thus, work was completed on the station, which was 55 meters long, weighed 77 tons and was approximately 20 percent the size of the International Space Station. Space.com.

Since then, Tiangong, whose name means Heavenly Palacehosts a rotating crew of three astronauts who conduct various science experiments, and CMS intends to maintain this status for at least ten years.

In addition, China will expand the space station with three additional modules, bringing the total number of modules to six. The dates when this will be done have not been announced.

CMS also intends to send to Tiangong Hubble-class space telescope called Xuntian which will orbit the Earth near the space station and will be able to rendezvous with it for repairs and upgrades.

(according to information from Europe Press)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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