{"id":3809,"date":"2019-07-26T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-space-lab-tiangong-2-reenters-atmosphere-under-control\/"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:06:34","slug":"chinas-space-lab-tiangong-2-reenters-atmosphere-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-space-lab-tiangong-2-reenters-atmosphere-under-control\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Space Lab Tiangong-2 Reenters Atmosphere Under Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, July 20 (China Space News) &#8212; China&#8217;s space lab Tiangong-2 reentered the earth&#8217;s atmosphere under control at around 9:06 p.m. on Friday (Beijing time), China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said.<\/p>\n<p >A small amount of the spacecraft&#8217;s debris fell into the predetermined safe sea area in the South Pacific, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p >Tiangong-2&#8217;s controlled reentry into the atmosphere marks the successful completion of all the tasks in the space lab phase in China&#8217;s manned space program, said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China&#8217;s manned space program.<\/p>\n<p >Tiangong-2, an improved version of Tiangong-1, is considered China&#8217;s first space lab. Launched on September 15, 2016, the space lab has worked in orbit over 1,000 days, much longer than its 2-year designed lifespan.<\/p>\n<p >Comprising an experiment module and a resource module, the space lab has a total length of 10.4 meters, a maximum diameter of 3.35 meters and a takeoff weight of 8.6 tonnes. After its solar panels are unfolded, its wingspan reaches 18.4 meters.<\/p>\n<p >Tiangong-2 has docked with the Shenzhou-11 manned spaceship and Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft. Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong stayed for a period of 30 days in the space lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, July 20 (China Space News) &#8212; China&#8217;s space lab Tiangong-2 reentered the earth&#8217;s atmosphere under control at around 9:06 p.m. on Friday (Beijing time), China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said. A small amount of the spacecraft&#8217;s debris fell into the predetermined safe sea area in the South Pacific, according to the agency. Tiangong-2&#8217;s controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}