We’ve been anticipating the eventual fall of China’s Tiangong-1 space station for months already, but now we’re entering crunch time. The out-of-control spacecraft is expected to drop any ...

The Tiangong-1 saga is finally over. The Chinese space station that has been plunging towards for years now has finalized the plunge. Heavenly Palace, which is what Tiangong-1 roughly translates ...

China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to do an uncontrolled re-entry on April 1st, +/- 4 days, though the error bars vary depending on the source ...

China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, made an uncontrolled reentry of its own back in 2018. It’s believed that most of the 8,500 kg (18,700 lb) burned up as it streaked through the ...

A previous prototype space station, called Tiangong-1, launched in 2011, and was retired in 2018, crashing down to Earth after the ground operators lost control during the de-orbit operation.

Tiangong-1 is set to burn up in the atmosphere. The data gathered by the scientists' TIRA (Tracking and Imaging Radar) system will help determine when precisely the module will come down.

China is planning a large, multi-module space station capable of housing three taikonauts, and has already launched two orbiting test vehicles—Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2, both of which safely bur ...

Aboard the Tiangong-1, Yang conducted various useful studies concerning medicine in space. In 1993, Los Angeles-born Ellen Ochua spent nine days in orbit aboard the Discovery space shuttle ...

After two successful predecessor trial projects, Tiangong-1 (2011-2017) and Tiangong-2 (2016-2019), China started building the new "Heavenly Palace" in 2021. Construction was completed in November ...

More commercial stations will follow. China seemed to sense this trend when, without much fanfare, they put their first space station into orbit in 2011, This was the eight-ton Tiangong 1. It lasted ...

CIOMP successfully developed payloads for the Shenzhou V and Shenzhou VI rockets - part of the manned space program and the Tiangong-1 space station. In addition, CIOMP now hosts an International ...