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Tianhe space station???
Quote from: Satori on 09/17/2016 02:32 pmTianhe space station???That's the name of the core module, which I'm using as the name of the modular space station, similar to how Mir was name after its core module. Just using Tian Gong might cause confusion, unless they call the modular space station Tian Gong 3.
Space-Track is still confused about the objects from this launch.Until today, objects A, D, E and F were the motor separation coversObject B/41766 is Tiangong. Object C was, until today, the rocket second stage.With the latest TLEs it looks like the rocket orbit is now being issued as object A (41765)and what was A, which has already reentered, will be retrospectively considered to be C.But probably tomorrow they'll further swap A and B so that the payload ends up as A. Maybe.For the time being, observers wanting to look at Tiangong should use TLEs for 41766.
Quote from: ZachS09 on 09/17/2016 08:49 pmThat's way too close for a rocket like this.Remote camera. No chance the reporter was at this distance.
That's way too close for a rocket like this.
I have not seen it commented on here, but there was something interesting in the Tiangong 2 pre-launch discussion on CCTV.It was said that the increase in scientific equipment on Tiangong meant that it was launched partially-fueled and that Tianzhou 1 will carry the propellant to fill up the tanks on Tiangong.Of course, this might be a garbled story and all that it means is that Tianzhou will replace the propellant which has been used on Tiangong and that the latter was actually launched with its full propellant load.