China Targets 2022 For Space Station Completion

Taco Cowboy writes: According to Reuters, China is aiming for 2022 to get its first space station operational. "China's leaders have set a priority on advancing its space program, with President Xi Jinping calling for the country to establish itself as a space power." After Chinese astronauts docked with the country's experimental space lab last year, they're planning the launch of another laboratory in 2016. Launch and construction of the new space station's core is planned for 2018, and their goal is to complete it by 2022. China insists that its space program is for peaceful purposes.

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Re:Been there, done that.

[bobbied]

Well... It's stayed up there ya know... That's an achievement..

Maybe you mean "Advancement"?

Re:Been there, done that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Interestingly, despite the US blocking international cooperation on the International Space Station, China is welcoming International involvement on the Chinese Space Station.

• China's space station to open for foreign peers
• China's space station to welcome international scientists

Reminds me of baseball's World Cup. And 1984 (ie doublepeak)

funding contributed by you

[k6mfw]

from purchasing manufactured items (that used to be done here in US).

Re:It is called the trickle down effect

[ColdWetDog]

.. why doesn't the ISS have some sort of light maneuvering craft? A small 2-3 person craft could access satellites, do research away from the ISS, or even (with a slightly larger craft) do mapping and surveying missions of the moon.

Look up Delta V and get back to us with your handy 'little' spacecraft.