The latest launch — China's sixth piloted flight to the space station and its fourth since around-the-clock staffing began in June 2022 — was carried live on Chinese television, providing spectacular shots of
China began preliminary work on advanced manned spaceflight in July 1985. The decision came against a background of vigorous international space activity. The United States had its Strategic Defense Initiative and Space Station Freedom. The Soviet Union had its Buran shuttle system, Mir and Mir-2 ...
According to Zhou, the Chinese space station will be more "economically efficient and informationized" than the ISS. It will be able to house a maximum of six astronauts at the same time and manned missions will become routine once the space station enters service. Starting from scratch, China...
Tiangong-1isequippedwithexerciseequipmentandtwosleepstations.Theinteriorwallsofthespacecrafthaveatwo-colorpaintscheme–onecolorrepresentativeoftheground,andtheotherrepresentativeofthesky.Thisisintendedtohelptheastronautsmaintaintheirorientationinzerogravity.DesignanddevelopmentBymid-2011,theconstructionofTiangong1was...
The charging and discharging effect on the surface or interior of the spacecraft is mainly caused by high-energy electrons. The interaction between electrons and the spacecraft can cause the spacecraft to charge. When the spacecraft is charged to a certain extent, the electromagnetic radiation gen...