Back Tiangong-2 AN تيانجونغ 2 Arabic Tyanqun-2 Azerbaijani Тиенгун 2 Bulgarian Tchien-kung 2 Czech Tiangong 2 German Τιάν-γκονγκ 2 Greek Tiangong-2 Spanish ایستگاه فضایی تیانگونگ ۲ Persian Tiangong 2 French
 A rendering of Tianzhou 1 (left) docked to Tiangong-2. | |
| Station statistics | |
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| COSPAR ID | 2016-057A |
| SATCAT no. | 41765 |
| Crew | 2 (from Shenzhou 11) 19 October – 17 November 2016 |
| Launch | 15 September 2016, 14:04:09 UTC |
| Carrier rocket | Long March 2F/G |
| Launch pad | Jiuquan, LA-4 / SLS-1 |
| Reentry | 19 July 2019 |
| Mass | 8,600 kg (19,000 lb) |
| Length | 10.4 m (34 ft) |
| Diameter | 3.35 m (11.0 ft) |
| Pressurised volume | 14 m3 (490 cu ft) |
| Periapsis altitude | 369.65 km (229.69 mi) |
| Apoapsis altitude | 378.4 km (235.1 mi) |
| Orbital inclination | 42.79° |
| Orbital speed | 7.68 km/s (4.77 mi/s) |
| Orbital period | 92.0 minutes |
| Days occupied | 26 days 11.3 hours |
| Statistics as of 22 September 2016 References:[1][2][3][4][5][6] | |
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| Simplified Chinese | 天宫二号 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 天宮二號 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Celestial Palace-2 or Heavenly Palace-2 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 空间实验室 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 空間實驗室 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Space Laboratory | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 program. Tiangong-2 was launched on 15 September 2016.[7] It was deorbited as planned on 19 July 2019.[8]
Tiangong-2 was neither designed nor planned to be a permanent orbital station; rather, it was intended as a testbed for key technologies used in the Tiangong station (Chinese large modular space station) of which the first module launched on 29 April 2021[9] and the remaining modules of which launched in 2022.[10]
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- ^ "China set to carry out controlled deorbiting of Tiangong-2 space lab". 12 July 2019.
- ^ "China launches first module of new space station". BBC News. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ China to begin construction of manned space station in 2019 Reuters 28 April 2017
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