Tianzhou-1 Completes Space Mission with Refueling of Tiangong-2: Official

The successful in-orbit propellant refueling from China’s first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 spacecraft to space lab Tiangong-2 marks Tianzhou-1’s space mission has completed with success, an official said Friday in Beijing. “At 19:07 last evening, China’s first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 finished the in-orbit propellant refueling of Tiangong-2, marking Tianzhou-1’s space mission has completed with success. By far, the space lab stage of China’s manned space engineering has smoothly achieved the targets of ’successful first launch, stable operation, healthy stay, safe return, smooth refueling and fruitful result’,“ said Wang Zhaoyao, director of China’s manned Space Office at a press conference on China’s space missions. Compared with the previous manned space mission, Tianzhou-1’s mission is the first flight of China’s space station cargo transportation system, featuring new task, greater technical difficulty and longer duration of task, W