00:00 - China launches 3rd and final space station component. Mengtian was blasted into space on Monday afternoon from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan.
00:10 - China Successfully Launches Final Module Of Tiangong Space Station. The space station is one of the crown jewels of Beijing's ambitious space programme, and made China only the third nation to put humans in orbit.
00:20 - China’s Space Ambitions Are Fueling Competition and Collaboration. The Mengtian (“dreaming of the heavens”) lab module, onboard a carrier rocket, blasted off the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the island of Hainan. It is expected to dock at the Tiangong (“heavenly palace”) Space Station within several hours. China space station: What is the Tiangong? Tiangong space station, or "Heavenly Palace", is China's new permanent space station. The country has previously launched two temporary trial space stations, named as Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2.
00:30 - How big is Tiangong? Once completed, Tiangong 's three modules will have a combined mass of around 100 tons, which is about a fifth of that of the ISS and right about in the same ballpark as the now defunct Soviet Mir space station, which deorbited in 2001.
00:35 - India space station. As India eyes setting up its own space station by 2035, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has proposed to the industry to collaborate with it in developing a reusable rocket NGLV capable of carrying heavier payloads into orbit.
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