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According to a report by the state news agency Xinhua, scientific work aboard China’s Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”) space station is currently in full swing. The report sketches the daily routine of the current crew aboard the orbital complex, which has been built around the Tianhe core module since 2021 into China’s permanently crewed outpost in orbit. The piece vividly describes the station as the astronauts’ “space home” (太空家园).
Tiangong is China’s permanently crewed space station program, coordinated by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The station consists of the Tianhe core module and the two laboratory modules Wentian and Mengtian, and is serviced at regular intervals by Shenzhou crews as well as Tianzhou cargo and resupply ships. The latest Shenzhou crew is currently aboard, carrying out scientific experiments in microgravity over a period of several months.
According to Xinhua, the focus of the current stay is less on individual highlight moments such as spacewalks and more on steady, routine research: experiments in materials science, fluid physics and biology sit alongside the upkeep of station operations. Such long-term experimental series are a core element of the Tiangong program, which aims to give the station a permanent utilisation concept over its planned life cycle.
The report joins a series of regular public status updates on Tiangong through which Chinese space officials keep the public informed about the progress of station operations. The piece did not yet disclose details on specific individual experiment results.