TIANGONG CHINA Flashcards
Which is a Chinese space station being built in low Earth orbit between 340 and 450 kilometers above the earth?
Tiangong Space Station(TSS)
is part of China Manned Space Prog. & country’s first long-term SS Prog.
China is only the __ country in history to have put both astronauts into space and to build a space station, after :
third , Russia&US
India is planning to launch its own space station by
2030
The manned mission of China will be launched in how many terms?
3
What is the name of core module?
Tianhe, or the “Heavenly Harmony”
* was launched with Long March 5B rocket
* from Wenchang Launch Center in China
What is the name of the second module?
Wentian (which means “quest for the heavens”
will also function as a backup of the core module, Tianhe
What is the name of decommissioned space station of Russia?
Mir
what is the name fo third and last module?
Mengtian
Mengtian, whose name means
“Dreaming of the Heavens,”
A Chinese ___ rocket carrying the Mengtian space station module rolled out to the launch pad on Oct. 25, 2022
Long March 5B
The space station will also support a powerful survey space telescope named ____ that China plans to launch as soon as late 2023
Xuntian
China’s first astronaut
Yang Liwei