06 January 2022
According to CASC's annual work report, China's major space contractor plans to carry out more than 40 space launch missions in 2022. Among the scheduled launches, the most important ones will be the 6 related to the Tiangong space station programme. Mission planners at CASC have said that of the 6 spacecraft for the CSS, the 1st to be launched will be the Tianzhou 4, followed by the SZ-14 crewed spacecraft. Then the 2 space labs - Wentian (Quest for Heavens), and Mengtian (Dreaming of Heavens) - will be lifted to complete the Tiangong station. The Tianzhou 5 will be the 5th, and the final one will be SZ-15.
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