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Forum:	ESA - JAXA - China - International
Topic:	China's Tianzhou-1 mission to Tiangong-2

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]<blockquote><font size="+0">[b]China to launch first cargo spacecraft[/b]</font> <div align="justify">China's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, is scheduled for launch for the nation's Tiangong-2 spacelab on Thursday (April 20), officials with the Chinese manned space program said on Wednesday. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/tianzhou1_prelaunch02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/tianzhou1_prelaunch02.jpg" width="400" height="226" border="0"></a></center> The uncrewed cargo spacecraft is scheduled to lift off aboard a Long March-7 Y2 rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the Hainan Province at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 GMT; 7:41 p.m. local time). Tianzhou-1 is expected to enter a 236-mile-high (380-kilometer) orbit before docking with the <A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum32/HTML/000267.html">Tiangong-2 lab</A>, which has been in orbit since September 2016. The cargo ship is slated to conduct three dockings with the Tiangong-2 and demonstrate propellant refueling. The 35-foot-long (10.6 m) spacecraft is capable of flying more than 6 tons of cargo. The Tianzhou-1 will also serve as an on orbit platform for experiments, including one on non-Newtonian gravitation, before its destructive re-entry into the atmosphere, the Xinhua news agency reported. The launch of Tianzhou-1 is seen as a crucial step for China's plans to deploy a space station by 2020.</div></blockquote> <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HVvKBNx-LCo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="sans-serif">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif"><blockquote><font size="+0"><B>China to launch first cargo spacecraft</B></font><P><div align="justify">China's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, is scheduled for launch for the nation's Tiangong-2 spacelab on Thursday (April 20), officials with the Chinese manned space program said on Wednesday.<P><center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/tianzhou1_prelaunch02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/tianzhou1_prelaunch02.jpg" width="400" height="226" border="0"></a></center><P>The uncrewed cargo spacecraft is scheduled to lift off aboard a Long March-7 Y2 rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the Hainan Province at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 GMT; 7:41 p.m. local time).<P>Tianzhou-1 is expected to enter a 236-mile-high (380-kilometer) orbit before docking with the <A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum32/HTML/000267.html">Tiangong-2 lab</A>, which has been in orbit since September 2016. The cargo ship is slated to conduct three dockings with the Tiangong-2 and demonstrate propellant refueling.<P>The 35-foot-long (10.6 m) spacecraft is capable of flying more than 6 tons of cargo. The Tianzhou-1 will also serve as an on orbit platform for experiments, including one on non-Newtonian gravitation, before its destructive re-entry into the atmosphere, the Xinhua news agency reported.<P>The launch of Tianzhou-1 is seen as a crucial step for China's plans to deploy a space station by 2020.</div></blockquote> <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HVvKBNx-LCo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Robert Pearlman

Long March 7 launches Tianzhou-1
China launched its first cargo spacecraft on Thursday (April 20) on a mission to the country's second orbital space lab.
The Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft lifted off atop a Long March 7 rocket from the Wenchang Space Center on Hainan Island at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 GMT; 7:41 p.m. Beijing time).

Robert Pearlman

Tianzhou-1 docks at Tiangong-2
China's Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft docked to the Tiangong-2 space lab on Saturday (April 21), two days after its launch.
It was the first of three dockings planned between the spacecraft and orbiting module.
Tianzhou-1 began its approach to the Tiangong-2 at 10:02 p.m. EDT on Friday (0202 GMT or 10:02 a.m. Saturday Beijing time) and made contact with the lab at 12:16 a.m. EDT Saturday (0416 GMT; 12:16 p.m. Beijing time).
The second docking will follow a different approach to test the ability of the ship to dock with a future space station at different directions. In the third docking, Tianzhou-1 will perform a "fast-track" docking.
Tianzhou-1 will also refuel Tiangong-2, a multi-step process that will require several days to complete.

Robert Pearlman

Tianzhou-1 demonstrates in-orbit refueling
China's Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft completed its first demonstration of on-orbit refueling on Thursday (April 27).
The capability to refuel its spacecraft will help China to build a larger, permanent space station, the Xinhua news service reported. China is the third country, behind Russia and the U.S., to demonstrate on-orbit refueling of a spacecraft.
Tianzhou-1's refueling of the Tiagong-2 space lab, under command of technicians on Earth, takes about five days. A second refueling demo is planned for June.

Robert Pearlman

Tianzhou-1 completes mission with re-entry
China's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, ended its mission during a destructive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere on Friday (Sept. 22).
The spacecraft left orbit at 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT; or 6 p.m. Beijing time) as commanded from the ground. Tianzhou-1 was in space for 155 days.
After its first docking with China's Tiangong-2 space lab, Tianzhou-1 demonstrated a "fast" docking and performed three refueling tests on April 27, June 15 and Sept. 16.

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