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China just sent a new group of supplies to his space station in Tiangong.
A Long March 7 rocket was withdrawn this evening (July 14th) at 5:34 p.m. Edt (2134 GMT; 5:34 p.m. on July 15th, China Standard period) from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island and the Tanzhou 9 freighter Skyward wore.
Tianzhou 9 draggs about 7.2 tons (6.5 tons) freight to Tiangong, which is currently occupied by the three astronauts (or Taikonauts, as China you) calls the Shenzhou 20 mission.
A long rocket on March 7, 2025, Tianzhou 9 Cargo Mission will start to the China’s space station Tiangong. | Credit: CASC
The supplies include food, fuel and a variety of hardware and scientific devices, including two room suits.
“These brand new spacesuits have an extended operating time, from three years from 15 space walks of up to four years from 20 space walks,” said the state China Global Television Network (CGTN).
“Tanzhou 9 will also bring a number of core muscle training equipment[s] In order to further improve the gym in the space station, which counteracts Taikonauts in microgravity, “added the outlet.
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As the name suggests, Tanzhou 9 is the ninth freight mission that China has created to support its astronauts in the low Earth circulation.
The first Tanzhou took off in April 2017 and waited with Tiangong 2, a prototype world space laboratory that tested the technology before building the larger outpost in Tiangong. The other Tanzhous met either with Tiangong or his core module, which was launched in April 2021.
China ended the construction of the three-modular Tiangong space station in October 2022. The outpost is about 20% as massive as that International space stationBut that could change: China has expressed the wish Expand Tiangong in the coming years.
