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Tiangong-1
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Tiangong-1 () was China's first prototype space station. It orbited Earth from September 2011 to April 2018, serving as both a crewed laboratory and an experimental testbed to demonstrate orbital rendezvous and docking capabilities during its two years of active operational life.
Key facts
- Chinese.s
- 天宫一号
- Space station.station
- Tiangong-1天宫一号
- Space station.station_image
- Model of the Chinese Tiangong Shenzhou.jpg
- Space station.station_image_size
- 300px
- Space station.station_image_caption
- Model of Tiangong-1 with docked Shenzhou crewed spacecraft.
- Space station.configuration_image
- Tiangong_1_drawing_(cropped).png
- Space station.configuration_caption
- Plan diagram of Tiangong-1 with solar panels extended
- Space station.COSPAR_ID
- 2011-053A
- Space station.SATCAT
- 37820
- Space station.launch
- 29 September 2011,13:16:03.507 UTC
- Space station.launch_pad
- Jiuquan, LA-4/SLS-1
- Space station.carrier_rocket
- Long March 2F/G
- Space station.status
- Deorbited
- Space station.reentry
- 2 April 2018, 00:16 UTC 2 April 2018 00:15 UTC (China Manned Space Engineering Office)
- Space station.occupied
- 20 days, 18.5 hours(Hatch open to hatch closed)
- Chinese.title
- Tiangong-1
- Chinese.altname
- Target Vehicle
- Chinese.showflag
- stp
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space station
- Part of
- Tiangong program
- Official name
- 天宫一号目标飞行器
- Country
- China
- Series
- Tiangong program
- Followed by
- Tiangong-2
- Mass
- 8506
- Image
- Tiangong 1 drawing (cropped).png
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- Commons category
- Tiangong-1
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2011-09-29
- space launch vehicle
- Long March 2F
- time of object orbit decay
- 2018-04-02
- crew members
- Wang Yaping
- orbital inclination
- 42
- apoapsis
- 362
- periapsis
- 355
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Design and development
- Structure
- Onboard facilities
- Mission profile
- Background
- Launch
- Orbital transfers and testing
- Autonomous orbital docking
- Crewed missions
- Preparations
- Shenzhou 9 (Expedition 1)
- Shenzhou 10 (Expedition 2)
- Post-mission
- Re-entry
- Program developments
- See also
- References
- External links
Tiangong-1 () was China's first prototype space station. It orbited Earth from September 2011 to April 2018, serving as both a crewed laboratory and an experimental testbed to demonstrate orbital rendezvous and docking capabilities during its two years of active operational life.
Launched uncrewed aboard a Long March 2F launch vehicle on 29 September 2011, it was the first operational component of the Tiangong program, which launched a larger, modular station into orbit in 2021. 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 space stations, but it orbited until 2 April 2018.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tiangong-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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