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    Tiangong-2 (Chinese: 天宫二号; pinyin: Tiāngōng èrhào; lit. 'Celestial Palace 2') was a Chinese space laboratory and part of the Project 921-2 space station...
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    Tiangong (Chinese: 天宫; pinyin: Tiāngōng; lit. 'Sky Palace'), officially the Tiangong space station (Chinese: 天宫空间站; pinyin: Tiāngōng kōngjiānzhàn), is...
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    The Tiangong program (Chinese: 天宫空间站工程; pinyin: Tiāngōng kōngjiānzhàn gōngchéng) is China's space program to create a modular space station, comparable...
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    Tiangong-1 (Chinese: 天宫一号; pinyin: Tiāngōng yīhào; lit. 'Heaven's Palace-1" or "Celestial Palace-1"') was China's first prototype space station. It orbited...
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  • 2020s Smaller space stations for testing: Tiangong-1 (2011) Tiangong-2 (2016) Tiangong-3, cancelled Tiangong program, an overview of the Chinese space...
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    launch Tiangong-3 around 2015, following the launch of the Tiangong-2 test laboratory, originally planned for 2013. The goals for the Tiangong-2 and Tiangong-3...
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    2F/T was designed, which launched space laboratories such as Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2. It dispenses with the launch escape system and supports a larger...
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    operational space stations – the International Space Station (ISS) and China's Tiangong Space Station (TSS), which have been occupied since October 2000 with Expedition...
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  • 29 November 2022, with the launch and docking of Shenzhou 15 with the Tiangong space station, the CMSA successfully completed all three of the above steps...
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    and Salyut series were eventually joined by Skylab, Mir, and Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2. The hardware developed during the initial Soviet efforts remains...
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    uncrewed Shenzhou 8, to dock to Tiangong-1. Subsequent crewed missions docked with the Tiangong-1, Tiangong-2 and the Tiangong space station. Similar docking...
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    Shenzhou 11 (category Tiangong program)
    the Tiangong-2 space laboratory, which had been launched on 15 September 2016. Shenzhou 11 was the first and only expedition and mission to Tiangong-2 in...
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    designated Tiangong 3, was scheduled for launch after Tiangong 2, but ultimately not ordered after its goals were merged with Tiangong 2. This could...
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  • This is a list of human spaceflights to the Tiangong space station. "长征二号F/G Y12 • 神舟十二号载人飞船 • LongMarch 2F/G Y12 • Shenzhou-12". spaceflightfans.cn (in...
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    China's Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 space labs. Since Jun 2021, Shenzhou has been used as the vehicle to send crews to China's new modular Tiangong space...
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  • This is a list of human spaceflights in Tiangong program. "长征二号F/G Y12 • 神舟十二号载人飞船 • LongMarch 2F/G Y12 • Shenzhou-12". spaceflightfans.cn (in Chinese)...
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    earlier projects Salyut, Skylab, Mir, International Space Station, Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 space stations. It is the first module of a third-generation Chinese...
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    cargo spacecraft developed from China's first prototype space station Tiangong-1 to resupply its modular space station. It was first launched (Tianzhou...
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    month later, Shenzhou 11 was launched and docked with Tiangong 2. Two astronauts entered Tiangong 2 and were stationed for about 30 days, verifying the...
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    Tianzhou 1 (category Tiangong program)
    China Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site. It successfully docked with the Tiangong-2 space laboratory on 22 April 2017 at 12:16 (UTC+8). Tianzhou 1 was deorbited...
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  • month later, Shenzhou 11 was launched and docked with Tiangong 2. Two astronauts entered Tiangong 2 and stationed for about 30 days and verified the viability...
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  • The Tiangong space station is a Chinese space station in low Earth orbit, and is operated by the China Manned Space Agency. Extravehicular activities are...
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  • experiments, facilitated by laser communications experiment carried on Tiangong-2 space laboratory module. QUESS is a proof-of-concept mission designed...
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    supplies of vegetables were included in Tianzhou 4. Additionally, China's Tiangong-2 station has conducted experiments growing food onboard in a micro-gravity...
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  • Space Agency launched the Tiangong-1 space station into VLEO in 2011 orbiting at an average of 355 km (220 mi), and the Tiangong-2 in 2016, both which have...
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    Shenzhou 12 (category Tiangong program)
    experimental, single-module Tiangong-2 space station, following Shenzhou 11. In 2016, plans for a second mission to Tiangong-2 were cancelled, and Shenzhou...
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    Boeing X-37 (section OTV-2)
    2016). "Space race revealed: US and China test futuristic EmDrive on Tiangong-2 and mysterious X-37B plane". International Business Times. Archived from...
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    Evolving Reality". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 12 (2): 143–159. doi:10.1179/isr.1987.12.2.143. ISSN 0308-0188. McKinney, Richard L. (2005). "Space...
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  • The Tiangong Kaiwu (天工開物), or The Exploitation of the Works of Nature was a Chinese encyclopedia compiled by Song Yingxing. It was published in May 1637...
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    Gaofen (redirect from Gaofen 10-2)
    China had experimented with polarimetric imaging in 2016 aboard the Tiangong-2 space laboratory and launched its Cloud and Aerosol Polarimetric Imager...
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