The Mengtian Laboratory Module was the final “building block” that would allow Tiangong Station to form a T-shaped structure.
China launched the Long March-5B Y4 (Long March-5B Y4) launch vehicle, which orbited the final module of the Mengtian laboratory for the construction of the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) space station. Xinhua reported this on Monday, October 31.
The rocket was launched from the Wenchang Cosmodrome in the island province of Hainan in southern China at 15:37 Beijing time (10:37 Kyiv time). About eight minutes after its launch, Mengtian separated from the rocket and entered its intended orbit. China’s Manned Space Program Office (CMSA) declared the launch a complete success.
This flight was the 25th in a row since the human space program was approved and launched in 1992.
“The Mengtian laboratory module, which will join the combination of the two modules at a height of about 400 km above the Earth, is the latest building block that will allow the Tiangong station to form a T-shaped structure, which is the main structure of the Chinese space station,” the message said.
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It was earlier reported that China has launched an observatory into orbit to observe the Sun. The device, which is in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 720 km, will collect data on the star for several years.
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