The Chinese have completed a second docking at their space station
The Chinese have successfully completed today a second test docking between the unmanned Shenzhou space capsule and their space station Tiangong 1.
The Chinese have successfully completed today a second test docking between the unmanned Shenzhou space capsule and their space station Tiangong 1.
China has successfully done its first docking in space. And an unmanned docking at that!
China has successfully launched an unmanned Shenzhou spacecraft to do an automatic rendezvous and docking test with its first space station, Tiangong 1.
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Catch this quick before they take it down: China used “America the Beautiful” as its background music for an animation shown during Tiangong 1’s launch yesterday.
Tiangong 1 has successfully reached orbit.
China’s first space lab module Tiangong-1 has been launched. No word yet on whether it has safely reached orbit.
Fueling has begun for today’s launch of China’s first space station module.
China has announced a launch window, September 27-30, for its first unmanned space station module Tiangong 1.
China has resumed rocket launches after an August failure, putting a communications satellite into orbit.
This bodes well for the pending launch of the country’s first space station module, Tiangong 1.
The launch of China’s first space station module has now been scheduled to late September.
Tiangong-1 is not a space station hub.
China’s first space station module, Tiangong-1, has been shipped to the launchpad for final checkout, in preparation for its launch later this year.
The launch of China’s first space station module is now set for September.