{"id":16392,"date":"2025-05-23T11:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16392"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:13:34","slug":"tiangong-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tiangong-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiangong Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tiangong Space Station Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Chinese scientists have discovered a new species of bacteria named Niallia tiangongensis on board the Tiangong Space Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Tiangong Space Station<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Tiangong Space Station, translating to \u2018Sky Palace\u2019, is a\u00a0<strong>Chinese-owned and operated\u00a0<\/strong>permanently<strong>\u00a0crewed space station in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It represents the third and final step of China\u2019s Manned Space Program.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The first module of the space station was launched in April 2021, following two precursor missions, Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The station consists of a\u00a0<strong>core module\u00a0<\/strong>known as\u00a0<strong>Tianhe,\u00a0<\/strong>which\u00a0<strong>connects two science modules, Wentian and Mengtian,\u00a0<\/strong>as well as a\u00a0<strong>planned space telescope module, Xuntian.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tiangong is much s<strong>maller than the International Space Station (ISS)<\/strong>, with only three modules compared with 16 modules on the ISS.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Tiangong is also considerably\u00a0<strong>lighter than the ISS,\u00a0<\/strong>which weighs about 400 tons (450 metric tons); the Chinese station is about 20% as massive.<\/li>\n<li>It can\u00a0<strong>accommodate up to three astronauts at a time for six-month stays<\/strong>. It can also support six astronauts at a time during crew handovers.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>aims\u00a0<\/strong>of the Tiangong Space Station are to:\n<ul>\n<li>Build a long-term, reliable space station in orbit.<\/li>\n<li>Guarantee the long-term health and safety of stationed astronauts.<\/li>\n<li>Provide conditions for scientific and technological experiments in space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The station serves as an<strong>\u00a0in-orbit laboratory<\/strong>\u00a0with 23 enclosed experiment racks, each covering a different proposed\u00a0<strong>experiment in the fields of:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Space life sciences and biotechnology<\/li>\n<li>Microgravity fluid physics and combustion<\/li>\n<li>Material science in space<\/li>\n<li>Fundamental physics in microgravity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The space station also features\u00a0<strong>platforms for exposed and unpressurised external experiments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tiangong Space Station FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:\u00a0<\/strong>What is the name of the core module of the Tiangong Space Station?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Tianhe<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0In which year was the first module of the Tiangong Space Station launched?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a02021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0How many astronauts can Tiangong accommodate during crew handovers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/science\/chinese-scientists-discover-mysterious-bacteria-on-tiangong-space-station-8476161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tiangong Space Station, translating to \u2018Sky Palace\u2019, is a Chinese-owned and operated permanently crewed space station in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":47066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,382,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-16392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-tiangong-space-station","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}