9/08/2022

The Long March-5B



The Long March-5B Y4 carrier rocket that is commissioned to ferry the China Space Station Mengtian laboratory module into orbit, has safely arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in South China's Hainan Province.

The Long March-5B Y4 rocket will carry out general assembly work at the launch pad and other testing work together with the Mengtian module that arrived earlier.

China is gearing up to complete the building of the country's first space station with the Mengtian - third and last part for the basic three-module T structure and the second lab module following Wentian module - to be launched and connected to the current space station combination in October this year.

Compared with the Wentian module that was launched in July and hosting experiments with focus on the study of space life sciences, the Mengtian module will be oriented to microgravity scientific research and is equipped with experimental cabinets for fluid physics, materials science, combustion science, basic physics and space technology experiments.

Mengtian also has a payload airlock, allowing the station's small robotic arm to take science payloads and install them on an experiment platform on the module's exterior.

The Mengtian will also carry the world's first Space-Based Cold Atomic Clock system consisting of a hydrogen clock, a rubidium clock and an optical clock. If successful, this Clock will not lose even a single second in space time travel.

  A-Non-Yes-Mouse 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

This shall be the pride of China in a long time yo come. Especially when the ISS is now already five years overdue for extinction. It's about time the ISS stiops extending its life span. Simply close it down and stiop endangering the lives of the American cosmonauts.

Anonymous said...

The wicked Americans are gambling with the lives of their astronauts knowing how risky it is to be in an expired container in space. Their lives can be lost at any moment.

Queen of Hearts said...

The Mengtian shall be the only Space Station existing for many years to come.

This is a demonstration of scientific and technological advancement.

Within just a short period of time, China is now able to show to the World her scientific and technological knowledge.

But China must not rest on its laurel. Striving for better tomorrow must always be in the minds of all Chinese people. This should be the way forward.



Anonymous said...

Don't pray pray hor. China may have it's space station, but the USA have the space force.

You just can see the difference. One is for peaceful research and advancing space technology. The other is always thinking of confrontation and expanding it's war mongering mentality even into space. A space force does not sound like a peceful move.

And that extends to patrol boats. Using the cover of curtailing illegal fishing as it's purpose, the real reason is far more sinister that that.

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