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Tiangong is China's modular space station, assembled in low Earth orbit at an altitude of approximately 340–450 km. Construction began with the launch of the Tianhe core module on April 29, 2021, followed by the laboratory modules Wentian and Mengtian in 2022. The station is operated by the China Ma...
Tiangong-2 was a Chinese space laboratory launched into Earth orbit in September 2016 to test advanced life-support and propellant-refueling technologies. It was occupied for a 30-day mission in late 2016 by two astronauts, Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, marking China's longest crewed mission at that t...
Salyut 4 was a Soviet civilian space station launched on December 26, 1974, into low Earth orbit as part of the long-running Salyut program. It hosted two successful crewed missions, Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 18, during which cosmonauts conducted solar physics, astrophysics, and Earth observation experimen...
The Lunar Gateway is an under-development international space station orbiting the Moon, led by NASA, intended to support crewed Artemis missions and deep space research.
Gemina is a 2016 young adult science fiction novel by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff and the second volume of The Illuminae Files. Set largely aboard the Heimdall space station, it follows Hanna Donnelly and Nik Malikov as an assault force attacks the station and a separate spatial anomaly threatens...
Tiangong-1 was China's first prototype space laboratory and an early test platform for technologies needed to operate a crewed space station. Launched into low Earth orbit in September 2011, it received the uncrewed Shenzhou 8 spacecraft and the crewed Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10 missions for docking...
Spacebase Startopia is a 2021 space-station management game by Realmforge Studios, a remake of Mucky Foot Productions' 2001 cult classic Startopia, adding a new campaign and multiplayer modes.
Developed by Cradle Games and released in 2020, this sci-fi soulslike is set aboard a derelict space station and heavily incorporates real-time clock events based on solar flares.
Dino Crisis 3 is an Xbox action-adventure game released in 2003 by Capcom Production Studio 4. Gameplay focuses on combat against reptilian enemies, which are DNA mutations derived from dinosaur species. The title serves as the concluding installment of the Dino Crisis trilogy, set aboard a space st...
