China proves a cut above with world-first precision laser experiment in space

發布時間: 2026年11月5日 新聞來源: SCMP 南華早報 查看原文
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China proves a cut above with world-first precision laser experiment in space

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China’s space scientists have become the first to carry out precision laser cutting in orbit, slicing a piece of “large-scale equipment” with a robotic arm fixed to the outside the Tiangong space station.

The official Science and Technology Daily reported on Wednesday that millimetre-scale cuts were made by a laser maintenance device operated remotely from “hundreds of kilometres away”.