How Did We Underestimate China's Tiangong This Badly?

Astrum April 17, 2025
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Discover what's really happening on the space station no one told you about. China's Tiangong-3 (Heavenly Palace) space station orbits Earth in parallel with the ISS, yet remains hidden from Western media attention. Join this exclusive journey to uncover the meticulously planned experiments conducted aboard this enigmatic outpost, and reveal China’s ambitious cosmic agenda that could reshape humanity's spacefaring future. ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Subscribe to our new channel! Astrum Earth: https://youtube.com/@AstrumEarth Sign-up to our Patreon for early access to Astrum Earth content: https://bit.ly/4aiJZNF ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Astrum Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2250635/share Astrum Infographic Artwork: https://electrify.art/collections/astrum Astrum Displate Posters: https://astrumspace.info/Displates Astrum Merch: https://astrum-shop.fourthwall.com/ Join us on the Astrum discord: https://discord.gg/TKw8Hpvtv8 SUBSCRIBE for more videos about space and astronomy. Subscribe! http://goo.gl/WX4iMN Facebook! http://goo.gl/uaOlWW Twitter! http://goo.gl/VCfejs Astrum Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/@astrumespanol Astrum Portuguese: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChn_-OwvV63mr1yeUGvH-BQ ▀▀▀▀▀▀ References: “China Academy of Spaceflight” website, via cast.cn https://astrumspace.info/CAST “China Manned Space” website, via cmse.gov.cn https://astrumspace.info/CMSE “The Wentian experiment module of the China space station has just gone into orbit”, via cell.com https://astrumspace.info/wentian “On-orbit Space Technology Experiment and Verification Project Outlook of China’s Tiangong Space Station”, via science.org https://astrumspace.info/researchontiangong “China pioneers ceramic 3D printing in microgravity”, via xinhuanet.com https://astrumspace.info/3Dprinting “A Membrane Reactor with Microchannels for Carbon Dioxide Reduction in Extraterrestrial Space”, via mdpi.com https://astrumspace.info/EAPethylene “Extraterrestrial artificial photosynthetic materials for in-situ resource utilization”, via academic.oup.com https://astrumspace.info/artificialphotosynthesis “Science Research and Utilization Planning of China's Space Station in Operation Period 2022-2032”, via cjss.ac.cn https://astrumspace.info/futureresearch “Trouble in the Stars: The Importance of US-China Bilateral Cooperation in Space”, via harvard.edu https://astrumspace.info/wolfamendment ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Credits Writer: Jon McColgan Video Editor: Frame Forge Researcher: Edie Abrahams Thumbnail Designer: Peter Sheppard Channel Manager: Georgina Brenner Executive Producer: Raquel Taylor Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan Animations: thaweverything on fab.com With special thanks to: NASA/ESO/ESA #astrum #space #tiangong #spacestation

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