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Tiangong-1: China space lab to plunge to Earth on Monday
The Tiangong-1 was part of China's ambitious space programme, and the prototype for a manned station in 2022. It entered orbit in 2011 and five years later ended its mission, after which it was ...
Step Inside China’s Secretive New Space Station
when the Shenzhou 10 mission docked with the Tiangong-1 prototype space station for the first time. Since then, the country’s ...
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China space station: What is the Tiangong?
The country has previously launched two temporary trial space stations, named as Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2. The new lab Wentian is the second of three key modules to Tiangong. The first key module ...
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Three-person crew enters China's Tiangong space station
Image Credit: AFP Jiuquan: Three Chinese astronauts including the country's only woman spaceflight engineer entered the Tiangong space station on Wednesday following an early morning launch into ...
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Step Inside China’s Secretive New Space Station
We may earn a commission from links on this page. The new, larger station is called the Tiangong Space Station and while it’s been in operation around 240 miles above the Earth’s surface for ...