Tiangong-2 News
The spacecraft and Tiangong-2 space lab completed their first in-orbit refuelling late on Thursday, marking the completion of the country's space lab mission.
As per reports, the Shenzhou-11 which was successfully launched on Monday morning from China's Gobi Desert, docked with the space lab at 3.31 a.m on Wednesday.
Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, 50, and Chen Dong, 37, were blasted off into space by Shenzhou-11 (heavenly vessel) spacecraft at 7:30 am local time (5 am IST) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre near the Gobi Desert in northwest China.
Considering all goes well, China will launch Tianzhou-1 – China’s first refueling and cargo vessel – which will visit Tiangong-2 in the first half of the next year. Long March 7 rocket will be used to blast Tianzhou-1.
China's multi-billion-dollar space programme aims to put a permanent manned space station into service around 2022.
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