The new station is hoped to be operational by 2022.
With hopes to have a new space station operational by 2022, China has launched a space station module - The Tianhe Module that contains living quarters for crew members. The module was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on a Long March-5B rocket.
The new station is hoped to be operational by 2022.
International Space Station is the only space station in orbit as of now from which China is excluded.
China has already launched two space stations into orbit. The Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2, on the other hand, were test stations, simple modules that only enabled astronauts to stay for a short time.
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