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March 30, 2016

Has Tiangong 1 gone rogue
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 30, 2016
China's announcement in late March that telemetry to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory had ceased is disturbing. The language used in the original Xinhua story was vague, but strongly suggested that Tiangong 1 had malfunctioned. This analyst has waited more than a week for a correction, clarification, or resumption of telemetry to be announced by China. That hasn't happened. We can safely conclude that Tiangong 1 has truly fallen silent. Without telemetry, China will be unable to receive data from T ... read more

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