[FPSPACE] Tiangong

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi all - 

We've seen several statements and models of different labs, and now this one:

http://www.cctv.com/program/journal/20080929/100561.shtml

The other statement had a core ( presumably with panels and truss) and two modules attached (Tiangong 2 and Tiangong 3)

Chen Lan, do you have any idea what is going on?   

Clearly the lab is going to require a higher launch rate than we've seen (once every 2 years), but what about reboost of the station using existing SZ control systems? My current assumption is that the lab is CZ3 launched out of the existing manned launch site.

The station is not supposed to come until 2020 now, what happened to the 2015 date for developing fuel transfer technologies? CZ5 slippage? Or did the earthquake hit the space funding levels? Or the development of better oil/energy technologies?




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