China announced on the 24th that it has successfully launched a rocket equipped with an experimental facility for life science research toward the construction of its own space station.
The state-run China Central Television reported that a large rocket "Long March 5B" was launched from a launch site on Hainan Island in southern China before 3:30 pm on the 24th of Japan time.
The rocket is equipped with one of the experimental facilities connected to the space station's core facility "Tenwa", "Monten", and the Chinese government announced that the launch was successful. Did.
"Qianten" is a facility that conducts research on life science, and is to conduct experiments on the development of plants and animals in a space environment.
China plans to complete its own space station this year and will launch the rest of the experimental facility in October.
China, which advocates a "space powerhouse," is accelerating space development by conducting unmanned exploration of the moon and Mars, and as President Xi Jinping aims to enter the third term, which is unusual for the party's top, and will hold the second half of the Communist Party Congress. Before, it seems that there is a desire to give momentum to the continuation of the project by emphasizing the track record of steadily proceeding with the construction of the space station.
On the other hand, this is the third launch of the large rocket "Long March 5B", but in the first adult, metal that seems to be part of the debris after re-entry into the atmosphere fell to Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa, and several It is reported that the house was damaged.