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Defunct space lab mostly burns up on re-entry

April 02, 2018 17:10·
China's'out of control space lab to hit earth tomorrow all you need to know

China's'out of control space lab to hit earth tomorrow all you need to know

It docked with Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9, and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. It was created to be a manned lab and a demonstration for the larger Tiangong station.

Sunday's crashed marked the first time a space outpost had made a crash landing on Earth since Russia's Mir station landed in 2001.

China launched the Tiangong space station in 2011.

Due to a phenomenon called orbital decay, the empty, rogue space station has been steadily cruising back toward Earth on its own. While operational, the prototype space station played host to Chinese astronauts on two separate missions.

"One of our missions, which we remain focused on, is to monitor space and the tens of thousands of pieces of debris that congest it, while at the same time working with allies and partners to enhance spaceflight safety and increase transparency in the space domain". "Although only a test base for future projects, it has had far-reaching effects", said Mao Xinyuan, a space science columnist.

In its statement, JFSCC suggested, but did not explicitly state, that it was sharing information about Tiangong-1's orbit with China.

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"It was very bright and moving very fast".

A rendering of the Tiangong-1 space lab in orbit.

May past year, China suddenly surprised the United Nations by saying that Tiangong-1 has ceased functioning.

"In 60 years of space exploration, only one person - an American woman named Lottie Williams - is known to have been struck by falling space junk, says Ailor, 'and it was just like a piece of fabric material that kind of brushed her on the shoulder'". Put more simply: The space around Earth is becoming a junkyard.

China's "taikonauts" have fared better and Beijing sees its military-run space programme as a marker of its rising global stature and growing technological might.

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, estimates that Tiangong-1 is the 50th most massive uncontrolled re-entry of an object since 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 - the world's first artificial satellite. Two astronauts lived onboard for 30 days, the longest ever space residence for Chinese astronauts. A series of cutting-edge scientific experiments, such as quantum key distribution, cold atomic clock and gamma ray burst observation, were conducted on the lab. Because today is April Fools' Day, social-media users had to be especially on guard against faked or recycled photos that purported to show Tiangong-1's breakup. But it's likely the majority of the space station burnt up in its descent.

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