{"id":197188,"date":"2022-07-25T18:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=197188"},"modified":"2022-07-25T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:36:51","slug":"china-launches-second-space-station-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-launches-second-space-station-module\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches second space station module"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cChina launches second space station module\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 25th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has successfully launched its second space station lab module named <\/span><b>Wentian.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Wentian?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wentian (which means &#8220;quest for the heavens&#8221;) laboratory module is the second module of China&#8217;s Tiangong space station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The lab module will provide a bigger platform for scientific experiments in space. It will also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">function as a backup of the core module, Tianhe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The module is equipped with laboratory cabinets for life ecology, biotechnology and variable gravity science.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Tiangong Space Station?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_197189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197189\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-197189 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/chinaaaaa.jpg?resize=399%2C358&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tiangong Space Station\" width=\"399\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/chinaaaaa.jpg?w=980&amp;ssl=1 980w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/chinaaaaa.jpg?resize=300%2C269&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/chinaaaaa.jpg?resize=768%2C688&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a planned Chinese Permanent space station to be placed in Low Earth orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Space Station roughly will have one-fifth the mass of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/international-space-stationiss\/\"><b>International Space Station<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The space station consists of t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hree modules &#8212; the core module, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tianhe-chinese-space-station-core-module\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tianhe a<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd two lab modules, Wentian and Mengtian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tianhe module was launched in 2021 and the Mengtian module is set to be launched in October 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cChina launches second space station module\u201d published in The Hindu on 25th July 2022. What is the News? China has successfully launched its second space station lab module named Wentian. What is Wentian? The Wentian (which means &#8220;quest for the heavens&#8221;) laboratory module is the second module&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-launches-second-space-station-module\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China launches second space station module<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-197188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700779641,"cached_date":1704872870},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}