China's space station is an achievement that solidifies the country's position alongside the U.S. and Russia as one of the world's top three space powers.
As scholars of space law and space policy who lead the Indiana University Ostrom Workshop's Space Governance Program, we have been following the development of the Chinese space station with interest., Tiangong is entirely built and run by China. The successful opening of the station is the beginning of some exciting science.
Like China's aircraft carriers and other spacecraft, Tiangong is based on a Soviet-era design — it is pretty much a copy of the Sovietfrom the 1980s. But the Tiangong station has been heavily modernized and improved. The Chinese space station is slated to stay in orbit for 15 years, with plans to send two six-month crewed missions and two cargo missions to it annually. The science experiments have already begun, with a planned study involving monkey reproduction commencing in the station's biological test cabinets. Whether the monkeys will cooperate is an entirely different matter.The main function of the Tiangong station is to perform research on life in space.
Although the new station is small compared to the 16 modules of the International Space Station, Tiangong and the science done aboard will help support China's future space missions. In December 2023, China is planning to launch a new space telescope called
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