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Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2011 -China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has arrived in outer space about 1.5 million km away from Earth and is now orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2), where gravity from the sun and Earth balances the orbital motion of a satellite, Chinese scientists said Tuesday. Chang'e-2 entered L2's orbit at 11:27 p.m. last Thursday after spending 77 days traveling away from its previous orbital path around the moon, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). The SASTIND said that China is now the world's third country or organization to successfully put a spacecraft into orbit around L2, after the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States. The Chang'e-2 orbiter will carry out exploration activities around L2 in the coming year, SASTIND said. There are five so-called "Lagrange Points" about 1.5 milli...

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 31, 2011 -The launch date for Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, has been the subject of much confusion in recent months. It seems that a launch is not too far away, and could appear within a week. It needs to happen soon. Just as there have been reasons for delaying the launch of Tiangong, there are reasons why it cannot be delayed too much longer. Rumours of a Tiangong launch by the end of August were challenged by the launch failure of a Long March 2C rocket in the same month. Soon afterwards, a former senior official with China's human spaceflight program suggested that the failure would have no influence over the upcoming Tiangong flight. This writer didn't believe it, and evidence in support of this was soon released. Chinese officials had sensibly announced that there would be a brief delay in the launch, to allow some time for checking the cause of the failure. There was obvious potential for a common link in the chain of failure...

Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2011 -China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has arrived in outer space about 1.5 million km away from Earth and is now orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2), where gravity from the sun and Earth balances the orbital motion of a satellite, Chinese scientists said Tuesday. Chang'e-2 entered L2's orbit at 11:27 p.m. last Thursday after spending 77 days traveling away from its previous orbital path around the moon, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). The SASTIND said that China is now the world's third country or organization to successfully put a spacecraft into orbit around L2, after the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States. The Chang'e-2 orbiter will carry out exploration activities around L2 in the coming year, SASTIND said. There are five so-called "Lagrange Points" about 1.5 milli...

Beijing (XNA) Aug 30, 2011 -According to an unnamed source in a position of authority in Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the remarkable Chinese unmanned space module Tiangong 1 will be launched soon. However, because the experimental orbiter SJ-11-04, which was launched last week, failed to enter Earth's orbit, the launch of Tiangong 1 has been postponed until early September. Tiangong 1, which means "Heavenly Palace" is the name of the first Chinese unmanned space module. After the launch of this aircraft, China will successively launch the Shenzhou 8, Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10 spacecraft that will dock with the Tiangong 1 to build the first Chinese space laboratory. At present, Tiangong 1 and its carrier the Long March II-F carrier rocket have been moved to the launch site and are undergoing vertical assembly. Tiangong 1 is expected to be launched in early September if everything goes well. Source: Xinhua News Agency

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 31, 2011 -The launch date for Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, has been the subject of much confusion in recent months. It seems that a launch is not too far away, and could appear within a week. It needs to happen soon. Just as there have been reasons for delaying the launch of Tiangong, there are reasons why it cannot be delayed too much longer. Rumours of a Tiangong launch by the end of August were challenged by the launch failure of a Long March 2C rocket in the same month. Soon afterwards, a former senior official with China's human spaceflight program suggested that the failure would have no influence over the upcoming Tiangong flight. This writer didn't believe it, and evidence in support of this was soon released. Chinese officials had sensibly announced that there would be a brief delay in the launch, to allow some time for checking the cause of the failure. There was obvious potential for a common link in the chain of failure...

Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2011 -China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has arrived in outer space about 1.5 million km away from Earth and is now orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2), where gravity from the sun and Earth balances the orbital motion of a satellite, Chinese scientists said Tuesday. Chang'e-2 entered L2's orbit at 11:27 p.m. last Thursday after spending 77 days traveling away from its previous orbital path around the moon, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). The SASTIND said that China is now the world's third country or organization to successfully put a spacecraft into orbit around L2, after the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States. The Chang'e-2 orbiter will carry out exploration activities around L2 in the coming year, SASTIND said. There are five so-called "Lagrange Points" about 1.5 milli...