{"id":3861,"date":"2018-11-08T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-unveils-core-module-of-its-next-gen-space-station\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:35:33","slug":"china-unveils-core-module-of-its-next-gen-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-unveils-core-module-of-its-next-gen-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"China Unveils Core Module of its Next-gen Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >ZHUHAI, Nov. 6 (China Space News) &#8212; A full-size model of the core module of China&#8217;s space station Tianhe made its debut on Tuesday at the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai, south China&#8217;s Guangdong Province.<\/p>\n<p>The core module will mainly serve as the control and management aspect of the space station and for the astronauts&#8217; living conditions. It will have autonomous flight capability, support the astronauts&#8217; long-time stay in outer space and help them conduct experiments concerning aerospace medicine and space science.<\/p>\n<p>The in-orbit construction of the space station is expected to be completed around 2022. It will be the country&#8217;s space lab in long-term stable in-orbit operation.<\/p>\n<p>The space station will consist of a core module and two experimental modules, each weighing about 20 tonnes. It will accommodate three to six astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>The designed lifespan of the space station is no less than 10 years, which can be extended by maintenance and repair work.<\/p>\n<p>The space station can be used to conduct space biology research and help cultivate fine species, probing disease mechanisms and biological medicine in order to improve people&#8217;s health conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZHUHAI, Nov. 6 (China Space News) &#8212; A full-size model of the core module of China&#8217;s space station Tianhe made its debut on Tuesday at the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai, south China&#8217;s Guangdong Province. The core module will mainly serve as the control and management aspect of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}