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As is the case with many launches, my comment referred more to the quality of the video than anything else.

It;s amazing how spoiled we've become. If it's not HD video, it looks terrible, and if there is not an on-board camera all the way to space, I'm similarly bored.

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2 hours ago, tater said:

It's amazing how spoiled we've become. If it's not HD video, it looks terrible, and if there is not an on-board camera all the way to space, I'm similarly bored.

yeah, you westerners get spoiled. Getting the satellite and the rocket running smoothly is impressive enough for Venezuela and China already - in fact, for every single one of them !

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1 hour ago, Canopus said:

Not really quickly, considering that the last crew left the station in 2013.

So what happened to the Chinese alternative to the ISS, are they abandoning having stations in space?

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7 minutes ago, PB666 said:

So what happened to the Chinese alternative to the ISS, are they abandoning having stations in space?

If by ISS alternative you mean a modular space station, they want to start building one next year. This Tiangong 1 and Tiangong 2 are equivalent to the eary Russian stations or Skylab.

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1 hour ago, PB666 said:

So what happened to the Chinese alternative to the ISS, are they abandoning having stations in space?

CHINA-SPACE-STATION.jpg

Tinagong-2 (not the one about to reenter) will be the core module. This station is very much like the Salyut stations, and Mir. Note the 2 solar array modules look a lot like the Russian NEM concept.

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On 08.03.2018 at 8:19 PM, Canopus said:

Tiangong 1 and Tiangong 2 are equivalent to the eary Russian stations or Skylab.

They are Soyuz with a little bigger head.
2.5 times lighter than Salyut and ~10 times lighter than Skylab.

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4 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

They are Soyuz with a little bigger head.
2.5 times lighter than Salyut and ~10 times lighter than Skylab.

I meant equivalent in that they are put up in a single launch, not necessarily comparable in mass.

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On 3/8/2018 at 12:45 PM, tater said:

CHINA-SPACE-STATION.jpg

Tinagong-2 (not the one about to reenter) will be the core module. This station is very much like the Salyut stations, and Mir. Note the 2 solar array modules look a lot like the Russian NEM concept.

How come this looks like someone made it in KSP

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