Tianhe is one of three main components of what would be China’s first self-developed space station, rivalling the only other station in service – the International Space Station (ISS).

On April 28th, China successfully put the core module of their Tianhe space station into orbit with the latest version of the Long March 5B heavy-lift booster. This rocket, designed for launching ...

The crew successfully docked with the space station just over seven hours after ... on the Shenzhou-12 mission is to bring the 22.5-tonne Tianhe module into service. "I have a lot of expectations ...

China has launched a key module of a new permanent space station, the latest in Beijing's increasingly ambitious space programme. The Tianhe module - which contains living quarters for crew ...

It later docked with Tianhe, the core module and the first to launch of the Tiangong space station. The Tiangong space station—meaning "Heavenly Palace" in Mandarin—is China's first long-term ...

A view of the Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft from Tiangong space station's Tianhe core module. Credit: CMSEO HELSINKI — A cargo spacecraft has arrived at China’s Tiangong space station ...

Xinhua later said the spaceship had "made a fast, automated rendezvous and docking with the front port of the space station's core module Tianhe." The team will return to Earth in late April or ...

The spaceship made a fast, automated rendezvous and docking with the radial port of the space station's core module Tianhe at around 11:00 am. The whole process took approximately 6.5 hours ...

At 2:32 a.m. (Beijing Time), Tianzhou-8 docked at the rear docking port of Tianhe, the core module of Tiangong space station, after completing its status setting, according to the agency.