China's out of control Tiangong 1 space station smashed into Earth at 17,000mph off the coast of Tahiti on Monday morning and mostly disintegrated as it hit the planet's atmosphereChina's defunct Tiangong 1 space station hurtled towards Earth and re-entered the atmosphere on Monday. How heavy is the Tiangong 1 space station and how often does debris fall from space? Visitors sit beside a model of China's Tiangong-1 space station in 2010. There is 'no need for people to worry', the China Manned Space Engineering Office said earlier on its WeChat social media account. 'It is routinely used nowadays by the (Russian) Progress capsules, which go back-and-forth to the International Space Station (ISS),' said Lemmens.

Source: Daily Mail April 01, 2018 20:10 UTC