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RE: Ground Control to Tiangong-1

in #writing7 years ago

But by 2016, after missing reports and months of speculation, Chinese officials confirmed they had lost control of the space station. The Chinese officials ensure that his pride project will hit Earth by the end of 2017 or early 2018.

Since then, China's space agency has told the UN that it predicts that Tiangong-1 will fall between October 2017 and April 2018. Stable orbit stations are reportedly increasingly destroyed.

In recent weeks the satellite has penetrated into the denser Earth's atmosphere and begins to drop faster.

"Now the perigee (the space orbits spacecraft to Earth - in this case the satellite) has been below 300 km and close in the denser atmosphere, the damage rate is getting higher," said Jonathan McDowell, a renowned astrophysicist from Harvard University and an industrial fan outer space.

"I hope the dying satellite will fall to Earth within a few months from now - late 2017 or early 2018."

Although most of the satellite body will be burned in the atmosphere, McDowell says the rest of which may be more than 100 kg will fall to the surface of the Earth.

That possibility can happen and the probability of human injury is very high.

However, China told the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, it is likely that the remainder of the satellite body will fall to remote areas of China.

Beijing estimates that the object will fall in May and promise to the UN they will inform the international world.

However, McDowell said, the prediction of where the satellite will fall is impossible. Even in the days leading up to the fall of the satellite to Earth. Nice @writesbackwards