Majestic picture reveals China’s Tiangong area station in all its glory

China’s Tiangong area station has been photographed in its full kind for the primary time. The vertiginous picture was taken from the Shenzhou spacecraft because it made its approach again to Earth after delivering three crew members to the area station.

Tiangong is totally operational, after the third and last module, Mengtian, was connected late final yr. This module, on the prime of the picture, and Wentian, on the backside, are each laboratory modules. The Tianhe module, on the centre of the picture, comprises astronauts’ dwelling quarters and a docking hub.

The area station’s essential objective is for scientific analysis: the China Manned Area Company has accredited greater than 1000 experiments to be carried out in microgravity, on questions comparable to how vegetation develop in area and the way fluids movement. The three Chinese language astronauts at the moment aboard the area station arrived in late October and can keep there for six months.