China Wants to Expand its Space Station 

you also gotta understand China went at this solo, no one helped. China is the ONLY country in the world with its own space station.

Imagine how cruel and selfish US, only participate countries that bow to them as their dog

Exciting to hear about the possible expansions to the Chinese Space Station. You do really to get these updates. Well done from the UK.

Excellent presentation as always! 👍

From Brazil, Thank you for your work in this channel. Muito obrigado ao Dongfang!

Space development and exploration is always fascinating. Excellent contribution by the Chinese team. Thank you Dongfang and keep up the superb work

Why not? The space station is modular anyway and having only 2 experimental modules is not gonna be enough once you really start using them. China already proved it can build space stations. The only question now is how big they want it to be to suit their needs, and it seem that if they want to open it up to commercial and international users it gonna have to be bigger.

CSS is 900 square meters inside and ISS is 912 square meters inside, why would you say it’s “significantly smaller”? It’s lighter because it doesn’t have heavy solar panels and mounting racks nor large amount of fuel, CSS uses ION thruster which uses little fuel to power.

This is exciting news.

I am more interested in their manned Moon program. Can't wait to see what their lunar lander looks like.

I had no doubt in mind. They will go above and beyond our expectations.

That would be excellent and welcome news.

Thanks for the impartial reporting/update on the CSS.

Glad I found this channel, I love these videos, they get the engineering mind excited.

Very informative, great work.

Great episode! Loving these updates

“ You Ass” will be screaming threat, contain and most of all, very envy hearing this news.

Thank you for your informative videos. Great work! Peace!

Maybe China should have two space stations since they have a spare. One for commercial space visit and one for experiments.

Informative ! Thanks

Pretty informative. Great work brother👏

A pleasure as always mate. Thanks

Thanks for the latest new. Cheers to you.

You failed to mention that even though the overall size of the CSS is smaller than the ISS, the Mengtian and Wentian modules of the CSS are the two largest modules in the world, each of which is bigger than any module on the ISS. Also, China always said that the current construction of the CSS is only Phase I of the CSS.

Impressive videos! and nice T-shirt!

Awesome. Glad to know

Great upload… 11/10 👍👍👍

Here's hoping CNSA adds more tourism friendly modules, something like the cupola on the ISS - and we one day get to holiday in space!

Keep adding!

heard there are 56 configurations planned or anticipated

Great video as always 👍👍👍

US expelled Chinese space engineer now this happens 😂

Maybe the upper docking port of the new port could be used to add a cylinder shaped 6 port , with 4 facing left right, forward and back as a small space hotel, with the upper one being another sphere based 6 port module, for spacecraft docking.

Loved your upload. I noticed that the current CCS does not have an observation window like the ISS, nor is it planned to have one. Instead, each astronaut's sleeping cell has a small, flat window that allows people to look out. I believe a large viewing window, or even multiple windows, would add great value to the CSS.

Thx for the update

0:20 "... Astronauts permanently on board for a period of 6 months..." Lol

Always excited to see new content here! These latest details do not disappoint. The extra docking ports on CSS (2:30), and 7-seat NGCSS spacecraft (3:56) seem to give CSS a 'gateway' like functionally. Would be fantastic if China is considering using CSS as a travel gateway to sending missions to lunar orbit. (speculation, as nothing official) Returning to LEO from lunar orbit doesn't really make sense, as is more efficient to use Earths atmosphere and aerodynamic drag to slow down vs. carrying extra fuel on a round trip for delta-velocity burn to slow down to LEO. Staging missions in LEO however could be pragmatic. Is there a timeline for how long CSS is expect to remain operational? I'd expect well into the 2030's based on ISS being occupied for 23 years now (initial components launched in 1998). The Mir SpaceStation was operational for a decade prior, hosting both Russian and US missions (1986-1996). CSS compared to Mir is a substantial improvement in capability.

Good job, Dongfang Crisp clear with good and relevant visuals

Y. Gagarin, carry on my mission. Guess that is what the CSS is doing. Great video, from the US.

Thank you for your informative updates🙂👍🙂

amazing

Great video love u china

All your videos are excellent. How do you manage to get all the information? Do work for the Chinese space agency? Do you live in China?

Love your shirt

Doubling it's size will be 140 tons, I think final size will be around 200 tons and with minimum 6~9 sleeping quarters. More experimentation modules, labs and capable hosting more scientists & taikonauts at one time to allow faster research. China + UN space co-operation will allows 1~2 foreign astronauts visitation/co-operation. Ppl from African continent & middle east, global south may join

The TSS must be expanded as much as the current tech allows and continues to do so as the tech evolves in the future. I have no doubts that space stations will evolved into the ones that we see in sci-fi movies now some day.

It makes sense to keep on add to it.

@2:50 looks very cosy! Also has a viewing port/window, how sick would that be to fall asleep to the sight of the earth and stars zipping past dozens of times everyday/night.

Exciting

Thanks for your explanation. I think all the backup modules will be launched to extend the scale of CSS.

Did I hear some time ago about a kilometre scale spacecraft? Would this be something that could happen with the extensions?

It is the tradition of China's aerospace industry that let backup unit function effectively. 1970s, China's second satellite, DFH-2, is backup for first, DFH-1. China's second unmanned spacecraft( SZ-2), is even just a full-scale ground test unit of SZ-1, and it was not designed to enter space. It launched after a simple upgrade, but trouble landing -- it is no spare parachute installed at all.

Maybe China will look into artificial gravity, that would be cool.

Bravissimi

We need a ring now😅

Nice to see international station continue growing. Kudos to China

Should!

i think it would be good to add the extra core module in, but any bigger than that i feel like it is not necessary at the moment...and i am not sure whether they need more than 3 chinese in space at any moment and the european seems might not want to participate in the CSS because of politics issues

I bet it's not going to end there. But as long as it's a " t ", you're safe.

Hmmm… I like more old Dongfang Hour logo aesthetic than this new yellow one, too oversimplified to me.

Great news. Expansion of ISS will allow multiple international crews aboard doing experiments.

China should on next space station build like the Borg Cube..lol.

I supposed they would double or triple its size for the next 4-5 years.

u need to bring back the intro the song was nice D:

China should build a mosque on the space station.

Space speaks Chinese too Long live the Chinese people

The second phase of the project will not be earlier than 2025.

Size doesnt count but practicality prevails. Later china can build bigger modules when needs are necessary not due to technical issues.❤👍

😢Correct me if I'm wrong.... China is the only nation that succeeded in completing vertical docking and in record time of 7 hours after launch from Earth.

Tiangong is not much smaller... the iss maybe be way more massive but they're relatively similar sizes iss IS bigger but not by much definitely not "much" bigger

That's great news 😮

I hope that after this war and when the Taiwan situation is eventually resolved, we can have an american crew visit the CSS and a chinese crew visit the ISS or the Gateway

Bravo, China, add on BRICS in your endeavors

hopefully they have war spacestation up in the space

I have to say that I’m really surprised. I honestly would never have imagined that China had the technological ability to build a functioning space station.

❤ China 🐼🇨🇳😎🌍🇨🇦

I wonder if the CSS will ever grow to rival the ISS. We can only hope.

中国要为沙特修建清真风格的太空舱

maybe it will be 華 someday

Good China

I expect once the 2nd core module is added to the current station they will then announce the Russia is cancelling their ROSS space station and will be adding their 2 currently built modules to the Chinese station making it a Sino-Russian space station. I then expect them to work together on Russias lunar space station as well or cancel it entirely, probably the latter.

When you say that there are 6 sleeping qtr on tiangong right now but 3 are backups, what does this actually mean? Why would sleeping QTRs need backups on the actual space station right now that's not doing anything? I mean sleeping QTR is not something critical to need a backup of it, and if need be, taikonauts can sleep anywhere like they do sometimes on ISS, or so I've heard from some interview with astronauts. They say they get sleep anywhere anytime they can, since sometimes it's too crowded and they have like 13 astronauts on board during hand overs or crew rotations etc. they also have wires and equipment all over the place, maybe they even used the sleeping QTRs for some other purpose, like storing equipment, food supplies, or even utilities like toilet paper haha. Also, I'm assuming that crews never all sleep at the same time, and most likely someone is awake at all times monitoring the system as well as doing something. This way they don't need a 1 to 1 ratio of crew to sleeping qtrs. So a crew of 6 can easily make do with 3 sleeping qtrs, or even a crew of 9, if you assume that they just have 8 hours sleep allocated a day. So 3 can support 9, and 6 can support 18. For everything else, they can just hang up a sleeping bag and take a nap anywhere they want, since it's zero g anyway. The only downside would be lack of privacy, but if they just want to sleep, that shouldn't be a problem, unless they wanna relax/chill and watching movieand/or just enjoying their own personal space and time. I guess this is also important, since sharing a small enclosed open space with zero privacy with 3 people or more for 6 months would be stressful and in the end everyone would need some personal time and space to recharge not jut physically but also mentally. I ranted too much lol. If anyone can tell me why sleeping qtrs needs backups, please let me know. Thanks!

Meanwhile the ISS gang is figuring out a way to avoid their decrepit space station does not kill anybody when it falls to earth 😂

Probably a Chinese takeaway for the international space station.

that puts the americans in their place. your content is very positive, but the style sounds threating.

*--- One more step towards 2001 ---*

The chinese akwats copy what actual Humans do. Copycat is their limit as Sapience is not with or in them, which makes them intellectual instead of Human.

great content! loulou & guigui

Glory to China

How many science modules are on the ISS? How is tiangong science wise comparing with the ISS. Great video!

天宫是中国神仙居住的地方。