Scientists say Tiangong-1 will burn up on re-entry and poses only slight risk to anyone on the groundChina’s defunct Tiangong-1 space station hurtled towards Earth on Sunday and was expected to re-enter the atmosphere within hours. The European Space Agency forecast that the station, whose name translates as “Heavenly Palace”, would re-enter sometime between Sunday night and early Monday morning GMT. The Chinese space agency forecast it would re-enter the earth’s atmosphere over a remote part of the South Atlantic between 0011-0133 GMT on Monday. Also, they quote a reentry position. Tiangong-1 crash: everything you need to know Read moreLaunched in 2011, Tiangong-1 was China’s first space station, serving as an experimental platform for bigger projects, such as the Tiangong-2 launched in September 2016 and a future permanent Chinese space station.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2018 20:16 UTC