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March 10, 2015

China's Space Laboratory Still Cloaked
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 10, 2015
The recent release of another update on Tiangong 2, China's next space laboratory, has prompted a lot of attention. A recent tightening of Chinese media policies has made this relatively obscured program even more difficult to decipher, and anything we get through official channels is examined closely. We are starving for more information, but sadly, China's latest serving offers little more than crumbs. China has essentially confirmed that Tiangong 2 is generally on-track. That's probably the mos ... read more

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