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Explained: What is Tiangong-2? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: What is Tiangong-2? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Mehr Gill |Published: July 24, 2019 11:59:26 am

Explained: What is Tiangong-2?

Unlike Tiangong-1, scientists were always in control of Tiangong-2. The space lab, which China had never intended to be a permanent post in space, was visited by an uncrewed mission in April 2017.

Explained: What is Tiangong-2?
Tiangong-2 was 10.4 metres long and 3.35 metres wide at its widest point, and weighed 8.6 metric tonnes.


Tiangong-2 was a manned Chinese space station that was destroyed upon its controlled re-entry into the Earth’satmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on July 19. Tiangong-2 was retired from service after it had completed its experiments in space.

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