Reporting from the BBC, China's space lab named Tiangong-1 will be launched this evening between the hours of 21:16 and 21:31 local time, at the Jiuquan satellite launch center, Gansu province. To launch this lab, China used Long March 2F rocket.
Tiangong-1 will be launched without a crew to launch this time. Astronauts or in China called yuhangyuans be launched into the lab next year. Tiangong-1 will be approximately several thousand kilometers in Earth's orbit.
Lab weighs 8 tons and has a length of 10.5 meters will operate automatically. Tiangong which means palace paradise this was the first of several series of other extraterrestrial facilities that will be flown next.
In recent weeks, China will launch Shenzhou spacecraft nirawak 8 to be bound up with Tiangong-1. Two coupling facility space with dozens of tons of weight it will use Russian technology.
If all plans go smoothly, two space missions with the crew, Shenzhou 9 and 10, will be launched next year. The astronauts are scheduled to stay at this facility for more than two weeks.
Lab space program is the second phase of the three stages of China's space technology ambitions. The first stage is the system of the Shenzhou capsule in 2003. Currently, China is developing a technology that allows astronauts to walk on air. The last stage of this program is the construction of the space station.
China targets space station construction weighing 60 tons. China Station is much lighter than the international space station operated by the U.S., Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan, which weighs 400 tons.
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