Tiangong-1

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.

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2011  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Heavenly Palace 1, Tiangong 1, Tiangong1, 天宫一号目标飞行器
space laboratory, former entity, space station, Zhang Xiaoguang, Wang Yaping, Nie Haisheng, Liu Wang, Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang, Long March 2F, 

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Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

2011-09-29T00:00:00Z

2011-09-29T00:00:00Z

2011 Tiangong-1

2018-04-02T00:00:00Z

2018-04-02T00:00:00Z

uncontrolled reentry

2011-09-29T00:00:00Z

2011-09-29T00:00:00Z

rocket launch

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Frameless

Tiandong-1 orbits in June 2013

Tiangong 1 in Beijing 20180401

• Monitoring the final orbital decay and the re-entry of Tiangong-1 with the Italian SST ground sensor network - scholarly article published in December 2020
• China's Tiangong-1 space station crashes into Pacific - Wikinews article, Russian, 2018
• Monitoring the orbital decay of the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 from the loss of control until the re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere - scientific article published in December 2019
• China's Tiangong-1 space station crashes into Pacific - Wikinews article, English, 2018
• China's Tiangong-1 space station crashes into Pacific - Wikinews article, French, 2018
• China's Tiangong-1 space station crashes into Pacific - Wikinews article, Dutch, 2018
• Evaluation of the Chinese Fine Spatial Resolution Hyperspectral Satellite TianGong-1 in Urban Land-Cover Classification - article, 2016

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Tiandong-1 orbits in June 2013		Commons
commons	image		Tiangong 1 in Beijing 20180401		Commons