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China’s space station is preparing to host 1,000 scientific experiments

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Researchers around the world are eagerly awaiting the completion of Tiangong, to study topics from dark matter and gravitational waves to the growth of cancer and pathogenic bacteria.

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Access through your institution Buy or subscribe China launched the core of its space station in April, and sent three astronauts up in June. But although the space station probably won’t be complete until late 2022, there is already a long queue of experiments from across the world waiting to go up. Scientists in China told Nature that the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has tentatively approved more than 1,000 experiments, several of which have already been launched. Access options Access through your institution Access Nature and 54 other N

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