16 September 2016
China launches its second space lab 'Tiangong 2' into orbit
... important step in a larger effort to eventually build a Chinese space station” says Brian Weeden, a space-policy expert at the Secure World Foundation in Washington DC. Plans to construct a space station that is more economically efficient than the...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... the Bigelow commercial modules. The proposal here is to launch the Chinese Space Station (CSS) to the ISS orbit with a certain distance apart of, say, 100 km. Each station runs independently but can also work jointly to support the other...
21 June 2016
China Looks for Space Station Collaboration through the U.N.
... telescope, designed to study dark matter, which will be able to dock at the space station for maintenance and hardware upgrades. The future Chinese space station will consist of three modules – a core command module and two experiment modules and...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...launch in April 2012. As the ISS approaches the end of its planned life, China’s ‘Heavenly Palace’, the Chinese Space Station (CSS), is likely to be fully operational by 2024. As it is, China’s efforts appear impressive considering that its prototype...
