Chinese Space Station Tiangong 1
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Chinese space station tiangong 1. For the past few weeks the fate of tiangong 1 has. 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 weighed 8 5 tons measured 34 feet by 11 feet and was the approximate size of a school bus.
He referred to an. 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. Tiangong 1 manages to avoid crashing into the spacecraft cemetery mr mcdowell stated that the chinese space station managed to avoid landing in the spacecraft graveyard.
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.