Tiangong-1
Deorbited
Tiangong-1 was an eight-ton experimental space laboratory launched in 2011 to test rendezvous, docking, crew support, and early orbital operations for China's human-spaceflight program. Shenzhou 8, Shenzhou 9, and Shenzhou 10 docked with it before the lab reentered in April 2018.
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- ~8,000 kg
- Mass
- Rendezvous and docking testbed
- Role
- Experimental space laboratory
- Type
- 1
- Docking ports
- 2011-09-29
- Launched
- 2018-04-02
- Reentered
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