<p class="title">China's experimental space lab Tiangong-2 will have controlled descent from its orbit and re-enter the earth's atmosphere to fall into the Pacific Ocean, the country's official space agency said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All of the space lab's assigned tasks have been finished. It is scheduled to fall out of orbit and re-enters the atmosphere under the supervision of ground control on Friday, China's Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said, without giving a specific timetable.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The agency said that the spacecraft and the instruments on it are functioning well, CMSEO said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Preparations for the controlled re-entry of Tiangong-2 into the atmosphere are proceeding steadily as planned. China will timely report the information about the spacecraft after it re-enters the atmosphere to fulfil its international obligations, it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most of the spacecraft will be burnt up in the atmosphere and a small amount of debris is expected to fall in the safe sea area in the South Pacific (160-90 degrees west longitude and 30-45 degrees south latitude), CMSEO said on July 13.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tiangong-2, an improved version of Tiangong-1, is China's first space lab launched on September 15, 2016. The space lab has worked in the orbit for over 1,000 days, much longer than its 2-year designed life, according to official media reports here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China plans to launch its permanent space station by 2022.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Comprising an experiment module and a resource module, the space lab has a total length of 10.4 metres, the largest diameter of 3.35 metres and take-off weight of 8.6 tonnes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It has functions of rendezvous and docking with the Shenzhou manned spaceship and the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China has carried out a series of scientific and technological space experiments and tested the in-orbit propellant refuelling technology on Tiangong-2. </p>
<p class="title">China's experimental space lab Tiangong-2 will have controlled descent from its orbit and re-enter the earth's atmosphere to fall into the Pacific Ocean, the country's official space agency said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All of the space lab's assigned tasks have been finished. It is scheduled to fall out of orbit and re-enters the atmosphere under the supervision of ground control on Friday, China's Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said, without giving a specific timetable.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The agency said that the spacecraft and the instruments on it are functioning well, CMSEO said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Preparations for the controlled re-entry of Tiangong-2 into the atmosphere are proceeding steadily as planned. China will timely report the information about the spacecraft after it re-enters the atmosphere to fulfil its international obligations, it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most of the spacecraft will be burnt up in the atmosphere and a small amount of debris is expected to fall in the safe sea area in the South Pacific (160-90 degrees west longitude and 30-45 degrees south latitude), CMSEO said on July 13.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tiangong-2, an improved version of Tiangong-1, is China's first space lab launched on September 15, 2016. The space lab has worked in the orbit for over 1,000 days, much longer than its 2-year designed life, according to official media reports here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China plans to launch its permanent space station by 2022.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Comprising an experiment module and a resource module, the space lab has a total length of 10.4 metres, the largest diameter of 3.35 metres and take-off weight of 8.6 tonnes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It has functions of rendezvous and docking with the Shenzhou manned spaceship and the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China has carried out a series of scientific and technological space experiments and tested the in-orbit propellant refuelling technology on Tiangong-2. </p>