China has a space station — it’s called Tiangong ... The modules of the Chinese station have a slightly sleeker internal look, and overall, everything seems less cluttered, or at least ...

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...

Without the attached spacecraft, the Chinese station weighs about 66 tons — a fraction of the International Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and weighs around 465 tons.