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Takeoff For TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 05, 2011 The launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has finally taken place. Apart from marking the debut of Tiangong as an operational spacecraft, it's worth considering what else we can already learn from this. Let's start with the launch event itself. China has notched up another successful flight in its Long March 2 launch vehicle series. This improves the overall scorecard for the various engines, stages and sub- systems associated with this family of rockets, which is regularly used for satell ... read more |
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