The new module, which will function as a node cabin, will have multiple docking ports like the core module Tianhe, allowing the space station to accommodate more spaceships, according to the CMSA.
The agency added that China plans to extend the in-orbit operation of its space station by implementing updates and upgrades.
The exhibition also showcased China's development of a new-generation reusable near-Earth crewed spacecraft with the capacity to carry four to seven astronauts into space and bring back over 700 kilogram of payloads to Earth. The country's existing spaceship can launch three astronauts into space and bring back 50 kilogram of payloads.
The space station will shift its priority from technological breakthroughs in the building stage to the performance of space applications. A slew of experiments is currently underway or poised to begin, in the space station. Some of them are aimed at figuring out how to resist microbes that may damage spacecraft metals, produce oxygen from algae in space, and convert heat energy into electricity.
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Whenever I see China’s plans, they’re always super specific. Exact length of rails, exact amount of material expected, exact speed expected, their goals for these plans, and a specific date that they wish to accomplish their plans by.
Yet the western reports about them are always filled with mystery and suspicion. And every plan I’ve seen from Anglo countries is just “The president calls for more support for new local industries.” Its super vague. Just platitudes. And then no one cares or remembers and you might read about their progress in some obscure paper like The Daily Idahoian Report, and 5 years later you find out they never got out of the pre-planning phase. And then they just keep circling back to the same promises, presumably because they forgot that they already promised it 5 years ago.
The west can't plan further than the next financial quarter, that's why.