China has said it expects to become "a major ruang power."

 

China plans to expand its ruang station to six modules from three in coming years, offering astronauts from other nations an alternatif basis for near-Earth missions as the NASA-led International Ruang Station (ISS) nears the end of its lifespan. King88bet

The operational lifetime of the Chinese ruang station will be more than 15 years, the China Academy of Ruang Technology (CAST), a unit of China's bermain ruang contractor, said at the 74th International Astronautical Congress in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday.

That would be more than the 10 years previously announced.China's self-built ruang station, also known as Tiangong, or Celestial Palace in Chinese, has been fully operational since late 2022, hosting a maksimal of three astronauts at an orbital altitude of up to 450 kilometers (280 miles).

At 180 metric tons after its expansion to six modules, Tiangong is still just 40% of the mass of the ISS, which can hold a kru of seven astronauts. But the ISS, in orbit for more than two decades, is expected to be decommissioned after 2030, about the same time as China has said it expects to become "a major ruang power."Chinese state media said last year as Tiangong became fully operational that China would be no "slouch" as the ISS headed toward retirement, adding that "several countries" had asked to send their astronauts to the Chinese station.But in a blow to China's aspirations for ruang diplomacy, the European Ruang Agen (ESA) said this year it did not have the bujetary or "political" green light to participate in Tiangong, shelving a years-long rencana for a visit by European astronauts."Giving up cooperation with China in the manned ruang domain is clearly short-sighted, which reveals that the US-led camp confrontation has led to a new ruang race," the Global Times, a nationalist Chinese tabloid, wrote at the time. king88bet login alternatif