China opened its first this Wednesday “earth space station”simulation and research infrastructure of the space environment capable of restoring environmental factors space.
The facility is located in the northeastern city of Harbin and was jointly built by the Harbin Institute of Technology and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, local newspaper Global Times reported in the past hours.
The complex consists of four experimental buildings dedicated to comprehensive simulation of the space environment, space plasma science, space magnetic environment science and animal husbandry.
The station can simulate nine environmental factors typical of space, such as vacuum, high and low temperatures, electromagnetic radiation, space dust, weak magnetic fields and microgravity.
“This success means that many future experiments that previously had to be done in space can now be done on Earth.”director of the Research Institute for Space Environment and Materials Science at the Harbin Institute of Technology Li Liyi said, as quoted by the daily.
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By eliminating the transfer of instruments and equipment into space, a ground-based space station offers cost savings, reduced safety risks and the ability to control specific environmental factors for scientific experiments, the paper said.
The Asian country has a space station, called “Tiangong” in Mandarin, which will operate for about 15 years in an orbit about 400 kilometers from the Earth’s surface.
It will likely become the world’s only space station this year if the International Space Station, a US-led initiative that China is barred from due to military ties to its space program, ends in 2024.
China has invested heavily in its space program and managed to land the Chang’e 4 probe on the far side of the moon – the first time this has been done – and for the first time to achieve Marthawhich became the third country – after the United States and the former Soviet Union – in ‘amartizar’.
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