China has big plans for its space station called Tiangong. Right now, it has three parts, but they want to make it bigger by adding three more. This will give astronauts from different countries another place to go to in space. The famous International Space Station (ISS) run by NASA will be closing down around 2030, so China wants to offer an alternative.
At a big meeting in Azerbaijan, a group from China that works on space stuff talked about their plans. They want Tiangong to last longer, from 10 years to 15 years. Tiangong is like China’s own space home. It’s their newest one after Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2. Right now, it’s not too heavy, and it goes around Earth not too far up. They’re going to make it bigger by adding more parts, starting with one called “Xuntian” in 2024.
The International Space Station is a big project with space agencies from the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. They send astronauts there to do science and other cool stuff. China is not a part of it. But since the ISS is getting old and will stop working in 2030, China wants to be a big player in space by then. In simple words, China is making its space station Tiangong even bigger and planning to keep it in space for a longer time. They want to have a place for astronauts from different countries when the International Space Station closes down in 2030.
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