13 May 2020
Debris from China's rocket may have hit African villages
... a safe location, such as ocean, a craft will be subjected to an uncontrolled re-entry. This was the case for China’s Tiangong-1 space station back in 2018 and it appeared to be the case for the remains of the Long March 5B as potential...
27 August 2021
China funds 5yr study into kilometre-scale ultra-large spacecraft
... ambitious space programme. Along with successfully landing a rover on Mars, the nation recently began work on its Tiangong space station. Chinese astronauts are currently working on its 22-tonne core module that was sent into...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... (GPS) with worldwide coverage. In 2022, China successfully completed the deployment of its own space station called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) which, unlike the NASA-led International Space Station (ISS), is entirely built and run...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... the CZ-7, planned to launch the Tianzhou cargo vehicles, will fall slightly short of the required payload capability. Tiangong 1 during ground tests before its launch on 29 September 2011. It ceased working in March 2016 after smooth operation...
25 October 2016
Microsatellite launched by Shenzhou-11 mission
... of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has reported the launch of a microsatellite from the Tiangong-2 space lab. The satellite will orbit close to Tiangong-2, take high-resolution photos and carry out space experiments. The microsatellite weighs...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...into perfecting docking techniques on the Shenzhou missions to the Tiangong-1 and -2 laboratories, with repeated re-dockings, to avoid ... that this might lead to a European invitation to fly to Tiangong, but the trail ran cold at this point. China’s Dr...
