Heavenly Palace - China's First Space Station (Kerbal Space Program - RSS/RO)
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Envisioned as part of Project 921, China's space program shifted to orbital craft and space stations. Here we see Shenzhou 9 mission to Tiangong 1 - the first heavenly palace.
Tiangong-1 is China's first prototype space station, serving as both a manned laboratory and an experimental testbed to demonstrate orbital rendezvous and docking capabilities. Launched unmanned aboard a Long March 2F/G rocket on 29 September 2011,[11] it is the first operational component of the Tiangong program, which
aims to place a larger, modular station into orbit by 2023.
Tiangong-1 was initially projected to be deorbited in 2013, to be replaced over the following decade by the larger Tiangong-2 and Tiangong-3 modules,but as of November 2017 it was still aloft, though in a decaying orbit.
Model of the Tiangong Space Lab and Shenzhou manned spacecraft. Tiangong-1 was visited by a series of Shenzhou spacecraft during its two-year operational lifetime. The first of these, the unmanned Shenzhou 8, successfully docked with the module in November 2011, while the manned Shenzhou 9 mission docked in June 2012.
A third and final mission to Tiangong-1, the manned Shenzhou 10, docked in June 2013.The manned missions to Tiangong-1 were notable for including China's first female astronauts, Liu Yang and Wang Yaping.
On March 21, 2016, after a lifespan extended by two years, the
Space Engineering Office announced that Tiangong-1 had officially ended its service. They went on to state that the telemetry link with Tiangong-1 had been lost.A couple of months later, amateur satellite trackers watching Tiangong-1 found that China's space agency had lost control of the station.In September, after conceding they had lost control over the station, officials announced that the station would re-enter and burn up in the
atmosphere late in 2017. As of late November 2017, Tiangong-1 is approximately 290 km high and is falling to earth about 10 km per month.
It is currently expected to deorbit some time between early January and late February 2018.
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