This video screenshot taken at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on May 22, 2025 reveals Shenzhou XX astronaut Chen Dong leaving China’s orbiting house station for extravehicular actions. [Photo/Xinhua]
Chinese astronauts labored with the nation’s scientists and engineers to hold out 86 new scientific and technological duties in 2025, highlighting the worth of the Tiangong house station in research work, based on the China Manned Space Agency.
The company stated on Thursday in a report about scientific and technological achievements made by the house station undertaking that in 2025, a complete of 1,179 kilograms of experimental devices, supplies, and different requirements required for science and expertise missions have been transported to the Tiangong, whereas 105 kg of experimental samples have been introduced again to Earth for additional examine. More than 150 terabits of scientific knowledge have been transmitted again to floor management.
In 2025, main accomplishments have been made in science and expertise missions on board the Chinese house station, together with the nation’s first in-orbit experimentation on rodent mammals and the world’s first in-orbit assessments of a pipe-checking robotic, the company stated.
Chinese researchers revealed greater than 230 high-quality tutorial papers and registered over 70 patents in 2025, due to experiments and knowledge from the Tiangong, it added.
Completed in late 2022, the Tiangong is now the one working house station independently run by a single nation, orbiting the Earth at an altitude of about 400 kilometers. With an general weight of about 100 metric tons, it is likely one of the largest and most complicated buildings ever established in house by humanity.
It has three everlasting parts — the Tianhe core module and two giant science lab modules referred to as Wentian and Mengtian — and is at the moment related with two visiting craft, the Shenzhou XXII crew ship and the Tianzhou 9 cargo ship.
To date, the Tiangong has accommodated 25 astronauts from 10 crews. Several astronauts have taken half in two spaceflights on board the huge outpost.
By the tip of final 12 months, 265 scientific and technological tasks had been organized or carried out on board the house station, overlaying life science, microgravity physics, and new house applied sciences, based on the company.
(Web editor: Wang Xiaoping, Liang Jun)