Today is an important day for China's space agency. No, the country isn't launching anything new into space, and in fact, it's sort of the opposite. The Tiangong-2 space station is coming back down to ...
HELSINKI — China carried out the controlled deorbiting of its Tiangong-2 space lab into the South Pacific, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Friday. The 8.6-metric-ton ...
Render of the Tiangong-2 space lab (left) docked with a Shenzhou crewed spacecraft. Credit: CMSE HELSINKI, Finland — China has lowered the orbit of its Tiangong-2 space lab, likely in preparation for ...
China's Tiangong-1 space station made news after Chinese authorities revealed it would fall back to Earth. In April, the China Manned Space Engineering Office announced that the experimental space ...
Artist's illustration of a Shenzhou spacecraft (left) docked with a Tiangong space lab (right). China's second space lab dived unexpectedly toward Earth this month, just two months after its ...
On Friday, China’s space station Tiangong-2 will be formally decommissioned — in brutal fashion. Tiangong-2 will fire up its thrusters and aim itself straight at an isolated patch of the Pacific Ocean ...
Chinese space station Tiangong-2 has officially ended its mission, and the orbital research facility’s entire existence. The platform de-orbited and burned up as planned at just after 9 AM ET on ...
A space station is about to fall from the sky. The Chinese station Tiangong-2 is scheduled to drop out of orbit on 19 July and fall into the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile. Tiangong-2 – ...
China's Tiangong-1 space station caused a sensation earlier this year when it crashed to Earth in an uncontrolled fireball. Now, its successor, Tiangong-2, has been displaying some strange behavior, ...
HELSINKI, Finland — China has lowered the orbit of its Tiangong-2 space lab , likely in preparation for deorbiting the orbital facility and thus averting a similar scenario to the uncontrolled ...
China’s second space lab will return to Earth in July 2019 in a controlled destruction, the country’s space agency said Wednesday. The announcement comes just six months after the country’s first ...
China’s second space lab will return to Earth in a controlled demolition Friday, according to the country’s space agency. Most of the craft will burn up in the atmosphere, but a small amount of debris ...
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