The laboratory module for the Chinese space station has successfully docked with the main module.
China’s Wentian Laboratory Module, launched yesterday from the Tiangong National Orbital Station, successfully docked with the Tianhe Base Module. This was announced by China’s Manned Space Flight Program Administration (CMSA).
Docking took place on Monday, July 26 at 03:13 Beijing time (on Sunday, July 24 at 22:13 Kyiv time). In total, the flight to docking takes about 13 hours. After that, the Chinese astronauts opened the Wentian hatch and successfully entered the test module.
It was noted that this is the first case of meeting and docking in orbit of two spacecraft, the weight of each reaches 20 tons.
It was earlier reported that China successfully launched the Wentian laboratory module to the national orbital station.
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