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September 12, 2016

Vigil for Tiangong 2
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 11, 2016
September 15 marks the opening of the launch window for China's Tiangong 2 space laboratory. It will also probably be the actual launch date. The launch window extends to September 20, but China has no good reason to delay the launch of Tiangong any later than necessary. There seem to be no technical reasons that would prevent it from launching at the first chance. We have been given sparse information in the lead-up to the launch, but what little we know sounds very positive. We can also infer th ... read more

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