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Tiangong- The Chinese Space Station

Tiangong Space Station

The Tiangong Space Station (Translation: Heavenly Palace) is a Chinese space station(CSS) that is expected to be operational by 2022 after all the modules are delivered and assembled in the proposed low earth orbit of 340-450 km above the surface of Earth.


It'll be roughly one-fifth the mass of the International Space Station and 20 meters in length. The Tiangong is expected to have a mass between 80 and 100 t (180,000 and 220,000 lb). Its operations will be controlled by the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center in China. The core module, the Tianhe (Harmony of the Heavens) was launched on 29 April 2021 via a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket.



 Tianhe - The core module 

 Wentian - 1st Lab Cabin Module (LCM)

 Mengtian - 2nd Lab Cabin Module (LCM)

The Wentian and Mengtian modules are scheduled to be launched in May-June of 2022.

The Launch


The Modular Space Station Core Module; Tianhe was launched on 29 April 2021 via a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket. It’s expected to receive its first “taikonauts" (Chinese astronauts) this summer to become the second crewed space station in orbit in addition to the ISS.

The launch was a success but the debris of the rocket is a heavy risk due to its uncontrollable trajectory of rocket booster. The debris is currently traveling at a whopping speed of 27880.27 kmph and possesses a big threat to the world. 

The nominal trajectory of the debris can't be precisely calculated due to its fast speed. It can land anywhere in the locations marked on the map as shown below.


 

Possible re-entry locations lie anywhere along the blue and yellow ground track.


Lately, China has been under criticism because of its previous incidents related to the space sector.

China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2016 after China National Space Administration lost control of it.


In 2020, a Long March 5B rocket carried out a test flight of a crew module, and its boosters made an uncontrolled re-entry. Debris from this re-entry damaged buildings in two villages in the Republic of Ivory Coast, in West Africa.

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