China opens a new era of space science.

CCTV News:As the first scientific experiment module of China Space Station and an important part of the National Space Laboratory, "Asking for Heaven" will provide more space for astronauts to work and live in orbit, and also provide a larger platform for space science experiments and applications.

Powerful function and complete equipment: China Space Station welcomes "new house"

With a total length of 17.9 meters and a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters, the candlestick experimental module is the largest single-cabin active aircraft in China at present. It is composed of a working module, an airlock module and a resource module, and each module undertakes different functions. In the working cabin, eight experimental cabinets are equipped, which can support space life science research and some corresponding variable gravity scientific experiments in the future. This cabin also has a sleeping area and a sanitary area for astronauts to live, exercise and eat.

Liang Xiaofeng, chief designer of the overall responsibility of the experimental cabin of the Fifth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group:There are three sleeping areas in the core cabin and three sleeping areas in the experimental cabin. This design is mainly for six astronauts to live together in orbit and provide them with more spacious work (space), including living space.

Small manipulator: "short and pithy" can carry out more extravehicular operations.

There is also a set of 5-meter-long small mechanical arm outside the airlock of the candlestick experimental module. This 7-degree-of-freedom mechanical arm is compact, high precision and more precise in operation. In the future, the forearm can also form a 15-meter-long combined arm with the big arm of the core module to carry out more extravehicular operations in the three-module assembly of the space station.

The scientific experimental cabinet "launches with the cabin" and "displays its skills" in space

There are also a number of mysterious cabinets that enter space with the Inquisition Experimental Module — — The scientific experimental cabinets mainly include 14 scientific experimental cabinets in a sealed cabin, an extravehicular exposure experimental platform and a common-orbit survey telescope, which support the scientific research on space astronomy, space life science and biotechnology, microgravity basic physics and so on.

Zhong Hongen, Deputy Chief of Space Application System of Manned Space Engineering, Researcher of Space Application Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences:For the first time, the international advanced scientific experimental cabinet was adopted to build a large-scale experimental facility, and the 500 kg scientific experimental facility is equivalent to the size of a medium-sized satellite.

According to reports, the Kaitian experimental cabin has deployed scientific experimental facilities such as life ecology experimental cabinets, biotechnology experimental cabinets, scientific glove boxes and low-temperature storage cabinets, variable gravity scientific experimental cabinets, and extravehicular exposure test devices.

The space station will carry out nearly 1,000 research projects in four major fields in the future.

China Space Station will be in orbit for more than 10 years after its completion. Experts said that in the future, China Space Station will carry out 65 research projects in four major fields, including space life science and human body research, microgravity physics science, space astronomy and earth science, and new space technology and application, including nearly 1,000 research projects, to explore a series of scientific problems faced by human beings in long-term space survival, which will comprehensively open a new era of space science research and application in China.