Chinese Space Station Tiangong 1

The rise and fall of tiangong 1 china s first space station china s tiangong 1 space station burned up over the south pacific on sunday april 1.
Chinese space station tiangong 1. A defunct chinese space station plummeted through earth s atmosphere on sunday night and officials said debris from the 18 000 pound spacecraft landed in the pacific ocean. Chinese space station tiangong 1 was only ever intended to be a test orbiter for its country one that would help china prepare for a more permanent laboratory habitat swinging around the planet. Tiangong 1 s main mission was to help china master the technologies required to assemble and operate a bona fide space station in earth orbit a goal the nation aims to achieve by the early 2020s. For the past few weeks the fate of tiangong 1 has.
Tiangong 1 s main mission was to help china master the technologies required to assemble and operate a bona fide space station in earth orbit a goal the nation aims to achieve by the early 2020s. The china national space administration cnsa designed tiangong 1 as an 8 500 kilograms 18 700 lb space laboratory module capable of supporting the docking of crewed and autonomous spacecraft. Sent into orbit on september 30 2011 tiangong 1 or heavenly palace 1 is china s first space lab the prototype for china s ambitious space program to launch a permanent 20 ton space station in 2023. In a statement u s.