JIUQUAN, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) — China will launch the Tiangong-2 space lab from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China’s Gobi Desert at 10:04 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Engineers have begun injecting propellant into the the Long March-2F T2 rocket which will carry Tiangong-2 into space, Wu Ping, deputy director of the manned space engineering office, told the press on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Once in space, Tiangong-2 will maneuver itself into an orbit about 380 kilometers above the Earth for initial tests. It will then transfer to a slightly higher orbit about 393 kilometers above the Earth when Shenzhou-11will ferry two astronauts to the lab.<\/p>\n
The astronauts will remain in Tiangong-2 for 30 days, she said.<\/p>\n
In April 2017, China’s first cargo spaceship Tianzhou-1, which literally means “heavenly vessel,” will dock with Tiangong-2 and provide it with fuel and supplies.<\/p>\n
Experiments related to medicine, physics and biology, such as quantum key transmission, space atomic clocks and solar storm research, will be carried out in the lab, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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