On Sept. 15, 2016, China launched its second manned space habitat, the Tiangong-2 module, designed to set the stage for a larger space station. See more photos from the Tiangong-2 mission here.

Tiangong-2 hosted one set of astronauts, in October-November 2016, and served as the base for multiple robotic refueling demonstrations, the last of which wrapped up in September 2017.

China's Tiangong-2 space lab plummeted back to Earth in a ball of flame today, as part of a planned de-orbit over the Pacific Ocean. Most of the spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere, with a ...

Today is an important day for China’s space agency. No, the country isn’t launching anything new into space, and in fact, it’s sort of the … ...

Tiangong-2, which measures 10.4 meters long and weighs 8.6 tons, was launched in 2016. It was designed as a test environment for technologies that will be used on China's upcoming modular space ...

Tiangong-2 was relatively small for a space station (when measured against the ISS), consisting of just a research module with enough space on board for only two astronauts.

Tiangong-2 will then be boosted to a higher orbit until April 2017 when a Long March-7 rocket will launch from Wenchang with the first Tianzhou carrier with more fuel and water to Tiangong-2.

The second space lab, Tiangong-2, which has been in orbit for two years, was launched in 2016. According to state media, it performed 14 projects and carried a 600 kg load.

Tiangong-2 was a more advanced version of the Tiangong-1 space lab which launched in 2011. Both were designed as steppingstones for developing and verifying technologies for larger 20-metric-ton ...

Tiangong-2 is a small space station that was put into orbit in 2016 to test a number of China’s orbital technologies; it was originally planned to stay up there for two years, but as many a well ...

10.5K. The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 – and its crew of two taikonauts – has successfully docked with the Tiangong-2 space module at 19:24 UTC.

Tiangong 2 was supposed to be a "space laboratory" launched in 2014, but the launch has been delayed until 2016. The next step is the Tiangong 3, ...