China space Lab in space

TianGong-1 is a target spacecraft,not a real space lab.
 

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They still haven't altered the music: http://newscontent.cctv.com/news.jsp?fileId=117772


Story : China-Tiangong-1/Animation
File ID : 117772
Dateline : Sept 28, 2011/Recent
Duration : 1'32
Locations : Jiuquan, China
Type : Nats/Part Mute
Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
Restrictions : Not access Chinese mainland
Pageview : 9271
Summary : Animation simulates Chinese space lab Tiangong-1's mission



Shotlist

Jiuquan, Gansu Province, China - Sept 28, 2011/Recent
1. Animation of launching of Long March II-F carrier rocket
2. Animation of boosters separating from carrier rocket
3. Animation of carrier rocket in space
4. Animation of rectifier separating from carrier rocket
5. Animation of Tiangong-1 separating from carrier rocket
6. Animation of Tiangong-1 separating from carrier rocket
7. Animation of Tiangong-1 flying on its orbit
8. Animation of Tiangong-1 adjusting position
9. Animation of Tiangong-1 establishing communication with Shenzhou-8
10. Animation of Tiangong-1 docking with Shenzhou-8
11. Animation of Tiangong-1 flying together with Shenzhou-8 in space
12. Animation of Shenzhou-8 separating from Tiangong-1 and returning to earth
13. Animation of Tiangong-1 entering higher orbit
14. Animation of Tiangong-1 in space



Storyline

Animation provided by Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center simulates whole launching procedure of Chinese space lab Tiangong-1, which is about to embark on its mission on Thursday night.

A Long March II-F carrier rocket with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, is scheduled to blast off between 21:16 and 21:31 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province. After the carrier rocket reaches the space, the boosters and rectifier will separate from the rocket, then Tiangong-1 will leave the carrier rocket to its orbit.

After adjusting its position in the space, Tiangong-1 will descend to an orbit 343 kilometer off the earth days prior to the launch of the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spaceship in early November. Two days after the Shenzhou-8 launch, the two crafts will rendezvous and dock for the first time. They will stay docked for 12 days before decoupling.

Shenzhou-8 will then return to the earth, touching down somewhere in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in north China. And Tiangong-1 will fly to a higher orbit, then stay there for two more rendezvous and docking missions next year.

EDIT: Soundtrack removed.
 
Perhaps they are saluting where much of the technology came from... just sayin'
 
long-march-lm-2fg-lg.jpg


http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Last_Launch_for_Long_March2FG_999.html​

At some time this year, China will launch the Tiangong 2 space laboratory. It will look much like its predecessor, Tiangong 1: A stubby cylindrical crew module with a smaller service module at its rear. Tiangong 2 is expected to feature several upgrades, including a regenerative life-support system.

Last year, this analyst concluded that the next Tiangong module will also be the last Tiangong. If China plans to launch the first module of the Chinese Space Station in 2018, there simply won't be enough time to squeeze in a third Tiangong and its associated missions. Thus, the flight of Tiangong 2 carries a degree of sentimentality for space analysts.

The second and last Tiangong could also bring the final flight of a special rocket. The Long March 2F/G made its debut with the launch of Tiangong 1. This vehicle seems to have been specially designed to support the launch of Tiangong modules.

It has not flown again since that module was launched. The rocket will be used again to launch Tiangong 2, which should have roughly the same mass as the first module. After that, its future is questionable. If China plans to launch no more Tiangong modules, we will probably never see this vehicle produced or flown again.

As its name implies, the Long March 2F/G is really a derivative of the Long March 2F rocket, which is used to launch China's astronaut-carrying Shenzhou spacecraft. The Long March 2F has flown ten times without a launch failure. It has carried astronauts for five of those launches. In turn, Long March 2F draws upon the legacy of previous Long March rockets in terms of its engines and other components.

The principal difference between the Shenzhou-launching Long March 2F and its 2F/G cousin is easy to spot. The 2F/G carries a very different payload fairing at its top. This accounts. for the larger dimensions of the Tiangong laboratory, which wouldn't fit inside the standard payload fairing for the 2F.

It also lacks an emergency escape system. With no astronauts on board, the escape rocket and stabilizer panels that help Shenzhou spacecraft to separate from their rocket in a launch failure are not needed. This simplifies the design and also reduces the weight of the rocket. That's critical. Tiangong modules weigh more than Shenzhou spacecraft, so this helps to keep the overall launch mass within performance limits.

It's also possible that there could be other minor differences between the 2F and the 2F/G that aren't as easy to spot. With no crew on board, some compromises in performance could be made. This could apply to vibrational and acoustic loads that could be experienced inside the payload fairing. The 2F/G could offer a rougher ride, but with nobody aboard, nobody cares.

It's understandable that China did not go to great lengths to design a special launch vehicle for Tiangong. The program was guaranteed to have a limited number of flights. It's possible that three launches of these small-sized Tiangong modules could have been made if one mission had failed.

This really seems unlikely now. Tiangong 1 performed very well, and we expect similar results from Tiangong 2. In the past, there was speculation that China intended to launch a Tiangong 3 module, but this was expected to be a "heavy" Tiangong that would have been too large for the Long March 2F/G.

With or without Tiangong 3, the total number of flights of the Long March 2F/G was always a balance between two or three missions, with the smart money always on merely two.

Thus, simply changing the payload fairing of an existing launch vehicle was a logical choice for Tiangong's launcher. It saves time and money. That being said, there has been a synergistic development of the Long March 2F/G and the Tiangong laboratories.

These modules are small, and their size has probably been at least partially dictated by the need to fit them aboard this rocket. The dimensions of Tiangong influence the design of the rocket, but the rocket itself also influences the design of Tiangong.

The standard Long March 2F has a bright future. It will continue to be the launch system for Shenzhou spacecraft for quite some time. It will launch crews to Tiangong 2 and to the Chinese Space Station. Having proved its worth with so many successful launches, China will be in no hurry to ditch something that works so well.

Its service record will be short, but it has been nice to see the Long March 2F/G in service. Without it, there would have been no Tiangong program, or the amazing crew expeditions that fly to Tiangong. Good luck for the final flight.
 
There another reason that's last flight of Long March 2F/G

China develop new generation of lift rockets: Long March 5/ 6/ 7 use LOX/Kerosene and LOX/LH2 propellant.
They completed on Hainan Island launch complex for them.
Long March 5 bring 25 tons in low orbit and 14 tons in GTO
Long March 6 is china version of ESA Vega, but use also LOX/Kerosene to bring 1 ton into low orbit
Long March 7 is modular rocket for payload range of 10-20 tons. by using two core stage and up to four booster in different combinations

The Chinese Space station will build from module somewhere in size of Mir module and weight each around 25 tons.
 
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Staying_Alive_on_Tiangong_2_999.html
 
China launch last Saturday it's Long March 7

according a interview with official Lin Jian
the Long March 7 will launch in future the Manned spacecraft and Lab into space.

in October the Long March 5 make first launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alFgWFVKc04.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0KHVntm8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q59BVy0LB4
 
http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/09/15/177235/china-launches-second-space-lab
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/21/out-of-control-chinese-space-station-to-crash-to-earth-in-2017/
http://www.space.com/34089-tiangong-1-fall-earth-2017.html
 
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Space_for_Shenzhou_11_999.html
 
http://www.space.com/34353-how-to-see-china-space-lab.html

One or two minor howlers in this article on the upcoming Shenzhou 11 launch: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-amps-space-program-race-challenge-u-s-n666391
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/17/china-launches-manned-mission-to-experimental-space-station/
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Breaking_Records_on_Shenzhou_11_999.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37670842
 
here complet launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jhx4J2j_kw
 
Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months

But in 2016, after months of speculation, Chinese officials confirmed they had lost control of the space station and it would crash to Earth in 2017 or 2018. China’s space agency has since notified the UN that it expects Tiangong-1 to come down between October 2017 and April 2018.

Since then the station’s orbit has been steadily decaying. In recent weeks it has dipped into more dense reaches of Earth’s atmosphere and started falling faster.

“Now that [its] perigee is below 300km and it is in denser atmosphere, the rate of decay is getting higher,” said Jonathan McDowell, a renowned astrophysicist from Harvard University and a space industry enthusiast.

“I expect it will come down a few months from now – late 2017 or early 2018.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/tiangong-1-chinese-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-months
 
ESA Joins Reentry Campaign


ESA experts will host an international campaign to monitor the reentry of a spacecraft expected early next year.

Early next year, an uncrewed Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to reenter the atmosphere following the end of its operational life, during which most of the craft burn should up.

ESA will host a test campaign to follow the reentry, which will be conducted by the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).

IADC comprises space debris and other experts from 13 space agencies/organisations, including NASA, ESA, European national space agencies, JAXA, ISRO, KARI, Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration.

IADC members will use this event to conduct their annual reentry test campaign, during which participants will pool their predictions of the time window, as well as their respective tracking datasets obtained from radar and other sources. The aim is to cross-verify, cross-analyse and improve the prediction accuracy for all members.

ESA will act as host and administrator for the campaign, as it has done for the twenty previous IADC test campaigns since 1998. A special case for ESA was the campaign in 2013 during the uncontrolled reentry of ESA’s own GOCE satellite.

Heavenly palace
The Tiangong-1 spacecraft is 12 m long with a diameter of 3.3 m and had a launch mass of 8506 kg. It has been unoccupied since 2013 and there has been no contact with it since 2016.

The craft is now at about 300 km altitude in an orbit that will inevitably decay sometime between January and March 2018, when it will make an uncontrolled reentry.

“Owing to the geometry of the station’s orbit, we can already exclude the possibility that any fragments will fall over any spot further north than 43ºN or further south than 43ºS,” says Holger Krag, Head of ESA’s Space Debris Office.

“This means that reentry may take place over any spot on Earth between these latitudes, which includes several European countries, for example.”

“The date, time and geographic footprint of the reentry can only be predicted with large uncertainties. Even shortly before reentry, only a very large time and geographical window can be estimated.”

Owing to the station’s mass and construction materials, there is a possibility that some portions of it will survive and reach the surface.

In the history of spaceflight, no casualties due to falling space debris have ever been confirmed.

ESA’s Space Debris Office, based at the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, will concurrently conduct an international expert workshop in the week of 28 February, focusing on reentry predictions and atmospheric break-up studies, enabling experts to share their latest findings and research in these and related topics.

Separate from the IADC campaign, ESA will regularly update ESA Member State civil authorities with detailed information on the reentry, as it does during all such events.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Space_Debris/ESA_joins_reentry_campaign
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/esa-china-apos-control-space-110002888.html
 
Tiangong-1 reenters over South Pacific

WASHINGTON — China’s Tiangong-1 module, whose uncontrolled reentry had been watched with both anticipation and apprehension, returned to Earth harmlessly over the South Pacific Ocean late April 1.

A statement by the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California said that the spacecraft reentered at approximately 8:16 p.m. Eastern April 1 over the South Pacific, far from any inhabited landmasses. There were no immediate reports of anyone, on land, at sea or on aircraft, witnessing the reentry.

Chinese officials also reported that the spacecraft reentered at approximately 8:15 p.m. Eastern, according to a statement from the China Manned Space Engineering Office. While the U.S. Air Force statement was based on data from its Space Surveillance Network, it wasn’t clear how China, with far fewer assets to track space objects, pinpointed the reentry time.

http://spacenews.com/tiangong-1-reenters-over-south-pacific/
 
China appears to be preparing to deorbit its Tiangong-2 space lab

China has lowered the orbit of its Tiangong-2 space lab, likely in preparation for deorbiting the orbital facility and thus averting a similar scenario to the uncontrolled re-entry of Tiangong-1 earlier this year.

Orbital information published by the U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Force Space Component Command, through the Joint Space Operations Center, indicates that Tiangong-2 has moved from an altitude of around 380 by 386 kilometers down to 292 by 297 kilometers.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told SpaceNews that, “it seems likely that the lowering of Tiangong-2’s orbit is the first step in safely disposing of it.”

McDowell says the orbit of Tiangong-2 was most likely lowered through two burns early June 13.

http://spacenews.com/china-appears-to-be-preparing-to-deorbit-its-tiangong-2-space-lab/
 
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_to_launch_space_station_Tiangong_in_2022_welcomes_foreign_astronauts_999.html
 
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_tests_propulsion_system_of_space_stations_lab_capsules_999.html
 

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