China says it's close to completing its independent space station as Beijing and Moscow intensify a space rivalry with the US
China is on track to complete construction of its space station by the end of the year, according to Chinese state media.
On Sunday, Chinese authorities said they were preparing a spacecraft that will carry a new batch of three astronauts to Tiangong,the China Manned Space Engineering Office . The launch is expected to happen in the coming days. Thereafter, China plans to send two laboratory modules to the space station in July and October, state-owned CGTNThese modules and astronauts are the final steps in Tiangong's construction, CMSE officials said at a press conference in April.
"After we complete construction of the space station in orbit at the end of this year, we will start developing use cases and applications for the station that will last over the next ten years," Hao Chun, the agency's director general, said, according to aThe completion of Tiangong, or"Celestial Palace" as it's called in Chinese, is likely to intensify a brewing space rivalry with Beijing and Moscow on one side and Washington on the other.
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