TASS/. The Shenzhou-19 manned spacecraft has successfully docked with Tiangong orbital station. This was reported by China Central Television. Shenzhou-19 was launched on October 30 at 04:27 ...

The trio will take about six and a half hours to arrive at Tiangong after the spacecraft reaches orbit and performs an automated rendezvous to dock with the space station some 400km (250 miles ...

China is planning to send two new crews to its Tiangong space station in another busy year of human spaceflight. China's human spaceflight agency, CMSA, announced in early March that the country ...

The Tiangong-1 Chinese space station has been widely covered over the past few months, but it’s not the type of coverage astronomers want when discussing a space station. Back in October ...

In 2025, China plans to launch a space telescope to co-orbit with Tiangong. It will be able to dock with the space station for repairs, refueling and potentially even upgrades. "Xuntian,” which ...

China's Tiangong space station is expected to welcome its first foreign visitor — a Pakistani astronaut who will likely become the first from the nation to fly in outer space, according to a ...

The China National Space Administration launched the first module of its Tiangong space station in 2021, and finished it with its third module the following year. The space station is about one ...

While the future of the nearly 23-year-old International Space Station remains uncertain after 2024, China says its newly equipped Tiangong station will be up and running by next year.

China has carried out its first in-orbit test of an inspection robot on board its Tiangong space station. The test, designed to check that the robot could be used effectively to maintain pipes and ...

China’s Tiangong space station has been operational for nearly two years, having been fully assembled in November 2022 with the addition of the Mengtian science module. The upgrades will occur ...