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
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