https://spacewatch.global/tag/tiangong/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:04:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/tiangong/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/10/spacewatchgl-recap-iac-2026-day-one-on-the-side-stage-beijing-made-the-news/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:30:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=78551
Written by Torsten Kriening
Away from the IAC 2026 main stage, the Global Networking Forum revealed another side of international space cooperation. From China's opening of Tiangong and expanding lunar partnerships to Russia's return to the international stage and the UK's sovereignty-through-partnership approach, Torsten Kriening reports from the side rooms where cooperation becomes concrete.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/08/spacewatchgl-summer-reading-the-wonders-of-micro-g-medicine-2/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:00:53 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50158 The moment the decommissioned ISS burns through re-entry and plunges into the Pacific Ocean will be heart-breaking. Granted, we will still have the Chinese Tiangong space station as a symbol of governmental and entrepreneurial prowess. But once the (American) private sector is solely in charge of orbital space stations other than Chinese ones, albeit with some friends and allies governments support as anchor customers, what will happen with global micro-G accessibility?]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/11/final-module-mengtian-docks-at-tiangong-space-station/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 07:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=44486 Mengtian (“dreaming of the heavens”), the third module of China’s Tiangong space station has docked, completing its construction. The Long March 5B rocket that deployed the module is currently on its way back Earth, with an estimated uncontrolled re-entry this Saturday.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/07/chinas-new-space-station-module-wentian-successfully-docks/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:00:07 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=42294 China has successfully docked Wentian, the second module of its Tiangong space station to the first, Tianhe section, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. The rendezvous and docking process with the forward port of Tianhe went smoothly, taking approximately 13 hours. Wentian will be moved to a side port with the help of the module's 10-meter-long robotic arm.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/06/three-taikonauts-are-aboard-the-tiangong-space-station/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:00:29 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=41366 Three Shenzhou-14 taikonauts, commander Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe are aboard the Chinese Tiangong Space Station preparing for their six-month stay in microgravity. The crew arrived at Tiangong's core module Tianhe, on Sunday morning. The taikonauts have been conducting inspections and setting up their living quarters ever since, said the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/04/chinese-astronauts-set-record-with-six-months-in-space/ Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:00:50 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=40506 A Shenzhou spacecraft landed safely in northern China carrying three taikonauts, about 9 hours after departing from the Tianhe core module of the Tiangong space station. The “rapid return” procedure employed by the Chinese for the first time, cut the number of orbits from 11 down to five.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/02/us-rejects-accusation-of-starlink-endangering-chinas-space-station/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 07:00:51 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38934 The United States has refuted China’s diplomatic accusation that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites have endangered its crewed space station, in an official note verbale to the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs in Vienna. Beijing issued their note verbale in December to the same UN office.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/spacewatchgl-share-private-space-stations-are-coming-will-they-be-better-than-their-predecessors/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37812 As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Alice Gorman, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is “Private space stations are coming. Will they be better than their predecessors?”, originally published 5 December 2021 at The Conversation.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/11/russia-destroys-own-satellite-and-endangers-iss/ Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:00:25 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37244 The Russian Federation conducted a destructive test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile against one of its own defunct satellites. The resulting space debris endangered the crew on the ISS, who had to be evacuated. The test has generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/06/chinese-astronauts-enter-tiangong-space-station/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 06:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=33750&preview=true&preview_id=33750 Three Chinese astronauts entered the Tiangong space station, Chinese state and international media reported. After a seven-hour flight in the Shenzhou capsule, the crew entered the space stations Tianhe core module as the first people to board China’s new outpost in space, the reports said.]]>