Chinese Space Station News

Three Words: Chinese. Space. Station.:

"China has just launched its second small Tiangong space station into orbit,
more or less catching up to what the United States’ and Russia’s own space
programs achieved starting in the 1970s.

Riding atop a Long March rocket, the 34-foot-long, 10-ton Tiangong-2 blasted
off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Sept. 15,
aiming for an orbit 240 miles over Earth’s surface."


See:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...e-station.html



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In with the new, out with the old!

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China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth:


"In a press conference on Wednesday, Chinese officials appear to have confirmed
what many observers have long suspected: that China is no longer in control of
its space station.

China's Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years
now, but recently it was decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to
the surface. In a press conference last week, China announced that the space
station would be falling back to earth at some point in late 2017."

See:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/spac...ling-to-earth/