Tiangong Chinese Space Station

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.
Tiangong chinese space station. As a prelude to building that facility china is set to loft the tiangong 1 module this year as a platform to help master key rendezvous and docking technologies ref china launched its first space laboratory tiangong 1 on september 29 200000000 following tiangong 1 a more advanced space laboratory complete with cargo ship dubbed tiangong 2 was. In a statement u s. 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. Space station space station tiangong.
It was originally planned to stay up there for two years but as many a. Tiangong 1 was china s first prototype space station. The module was launched in 2011 and hosted two crews of taikonauts chinese astronauts in 2012 and. 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.
It has two sections a forward pressurized module that contains the astronauts living space and an unpressurized rear instrument module that contains tiangong s propulsion system. It orbited earth from september 2011 to april 2018 serving as both a crewed laboratory and an experimental testbed to demonstrate orbital rendezvous and docking capabilities during its two years of active operational life. For the past few weeks the fate of tiangong 1 has. Launched uncrewed aboard a long march 2f g rocket on 29 september 2011 it was the first operational component of the tiangong program which aims to place a larger modular station into orbit by 2023.
The chinese tiangong heavenly palace is an 8 500 kg 18 700 pound cylinder that is 3 4 metres 11 2 feet in diameter. Tiangong 2 is a small space station that was put into orbit in 2016 to test a number of china s orbital technologies. Tiangong 1 is a single module space station operated by the china national space administration.