Outer Space: Chinese robotic spacecraft docks with the country's new space station

A robotic spacecraft docked with China's new space station on Sunday carrying fuel and supplies for its future crew.

China's space agency said the Tianzhou-2 spacecraft reached the Tianhe station eight hours after blasting off from Hainan, an island in the South China Sea.

It carried space suits, living supplies, equipment and fuel for the station.

Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, is the third and largest orbital station launched by China's increasingly ambitious space programme.

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China - space: China launches key module of new space station

China launched an unmanned module on Thursday containing what will become living quarters for three crew on a permanent space station that it plans to complete by the end of 2022, state media reported.

The module, named "Tianhe," or "Harmony of the Heavens," was launched on the Long March 5B, China's largest carrier rocket, at 11:23 a.m. local time (0323 GMT) from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the southern island of Hainan.

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Avionews:Space: The two elements, both built in Italy, will be docked to the Station in February

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Two more pieces of Europe, and of Italy in particular, are getting ready to join the ISS (International Space Station). Twelve years of design, development and hard work came to fruition with the formal handover of Node 3 from ESA to NASA on 20 November. The ceremony took place in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. The handover completed the final major element of the barter agreement between ESA and NASA signed in Turin (Italy) on 8 October 1997 under which ESA provided Nodes 2 and 3 plus additional equipment and knowhow in return for transportation of the European Columbus Laboratory to the ISS by Space Shuttle.

TLNews: Simonyi, 58, billionaire founding father of Microsoft to blast off in Russian Spacecraft to International Space Station

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Simonyi, 58, billionaire founding father of Microsoft to blast off in Russian Spacecraft to International Space Station

U.S. lifestyle queen Martha Stewart flew to the Soviet-era Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday to wish good luck to her friend, space tourist Charles Simonyi who is due to blast off to orbit on Saturday.

Simonyi, 58, a billionaire founding father of Microsoft, was undergoing last-minute checks ahead of the flight at the cosmodrome in Kazakhstan along with Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov.

The three are due to lift off on Saturday at 11:31 p.m. aboard the Soyuz TMA-10 spaceship to the International Space Station.