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Keep Your Eyes On the Skies! Chinese Space Station Going to Crash to Earth

October 17, 2017 earth from space chinese space station
FighterSweep Staff 1 Comment News, Photos, Space, Technology

A large Chinese space station has begun an out of control decent and will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a matter of months.

In 2016, after months of speculation, Chinese officials confirmed they had lost control of the space station and it would crash to Earth in 2017 or 2018. China’s space agency has since notified the UN that it expects Tiangong-1 to come down between October 2017 and April 2018.

Since then the station’s orbit has been steadily decaying. In recent weeks it has dipped into more dense reaches of Earth’s atmosphere and started falling faster.

“Now that [its] perigee is below 300km and it is in denser atmosphere, the rate of decay is getting higher,” said Jonathan McDowell, a renowned astrophysicist from Harvard University and a space industry enthusiast.

“I expect it will come down a few months from now – late 2017 or early 2018.” – The Guardian

Featured image by NASA

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