More peered Chinese Space Station

China is now proven not only good at making a cell phone or car-like mobile phones or vehicle industry made ​​by western countries.

Plan bamboo curtain country to realize its own space station, is an essential phase in the achievement of China as one strong nation that can not be underestimated.

Despite China's future space station will be smaller in size than the International Space Station (ISS), but the level of difficulty making the space station modules is higher than a singular module.

"This is a multi-module space station third in the world, which usually require more sophisticated technology than a single module technology," said Pang Zhihao, a scientist and Deputy Editor-in-Chief International Space monthly magazine, as quoted by the China Daily website.

International space station itself is a joint project run by 16 countries in the world, including USA, Russia, Japan, European Union countries, Canada, and Brazil. While China's space station later is a project of their country independently.

The plan, space station that will be finished in 2020 it will consist of three capsules, and a space cargo plane that will carry supplies from Earth. Space station will weigh about 60 tons (less than the ISS which weighs 419 tons or MIR which weigh 137 tons).

The main module space station is 18.1 meters in length, with a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters, and weighs between 20-22 tonnes, will be launched first. Meanwhile, two experiment modules on either side, will have a length of 14.4 meters masong each with a diameter equal to the main module.