Tiangong 1 and 2
Author(s): Thomas Tarrants (Sirius_Alpha) DaveBowman2001
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Tiangong 1 and Tiangong 2 were the first space stations operated by China. Like the Salyut series before Mir, they served as testbeds for the modular space station simply named Tiangong, which was launched in 2021. Three Shenzhou missions were launched to Tiangong 1, while one Shenzhou mission was conducted on Tiangong 2 for 33 days. The two stations operated from 2011 to 2019
| Project 921-2 (2011-2019) |
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| Mission | Destination | Start | End | ||
| Date | Time (UTC) | Date | Time (UTC) | ||
| Tiangong 1 | - | 2011-Sep-29 | 13:16:04 | 2018-Apr-02 | 00:16:00 |
| Shenzhou 8 | Tiangong 1 | 2011-Nov-02 | 17:28:00 | 2011-Nov-16 | 10:30:00 |
| Shenzhou 9 | Tiangong 1 | 2012-Jun-18 | 06:07:00 | 2012-Jun-28 | 01:28:00 |
| Shenzhou 10 | Tiangong 1 | 2013-Jun-13 | 05:11:00 | 2013-Jun-25 | 00:07:00 |
| Tiangong 2 | - | 2016-Sep-15 | 22:04:09 | 2019-Jul-19 | 14:00:00 |
| Shenzhou 11 | Tiangong 2 | 2016-Oct-18 | 17:24:00 | 2016-Nov-14 | 04:41:00 |
| Tianzhou 1 | Tiangong 2 | 2017-Apr-22 | 04:23:00 | 2017-Sep-12 | 08:15:00 |
The launch of Tiangong 1 (2011, left) and Tiangong 2 (2016, right)
The launch of China's first space station crews, 2011 to 2016
Tiangong 1 during the live broadcast of Shenzhou 9's docking, June 2012
The first female taikonauts in space, Liu Yang (2012, left) and Wang Yaping (2013, right) aboard Tiangong 1
Tiangong 2 imaged by the BanXing-2 microsatellite, October 2016
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