China successfully launches new large module to its Tiangong space station
Tiangong-3 station, when completed
The new colonial movement: China on July 24, 2022 (China time) has successfully used its Long March 5B rocket to put into orbit its Wentian module, the next large section that will dock with the Tiangong station in the next day or so.
According to one announcer, the core stage will not crash to Earth in an uncontrolled manner, as in previous Long March 5B launches. However, this is China, and his statement cannot be taken at face value. We shall find out in the coming days if this is so, or whether the core stage will be a threat to habitable areas as its orbit decays.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
32 SpaceX
24 China
9 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 45 to 24 in the national rankings, as well as the entire globe combined 45 to 40.
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Tiangong-3 station, when completed
The new colonial movement: China on July 24, 2022 (China time) has successfully used its Long March 5B rocket to put into orbit its Wentian module, the next large section that will dock with the Tiangong station in the next day or so.
According to one announcer, the core stage will not crash to Earth in an uncontrolled manner, as in previous Long March 5B launches. However, this is China, and his statement cannot be taken at face value. We shall find out in the coming days if this is so, or whether the core stage will be a threat to habitable areas as its orbit decays.
The leaders in the 2022 launch race:
32 SpaceX
24 China
9 Russia
5 Rocket Lab
4 ULA
The U.S. still leads China 45 to 24 in the national rankings, as well as the entire globe combined 45 to 40.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Now docked
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1551289917329641473
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Does anybody have a link to .a place where you can find flyovers?
That thing must be pretty bright and is just ruining astronomy as we know it.
Never mind, found it:
https://www.astroviewer.net/iss/en/observation-css.php
pawn,
Another good site that I use is Heavens Above.
Since Tiangong-3’s orbit is 379 x 388 km, 41.5°, those of us in the northern latitudes could at best see it 30° above the horizon.
By the way, the CZ-5B core stage still has not been deorbited.