Ground Control to Tiangong-1
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In the brief history of space stations, there have been less than a dozen manned low earth orbit operations. Referencing space stations still makes me think of some sort super villain/ James Bond type thing but I digress. There are only 2 ongoing manned operations right now, the International Space Station and Tiangong 2. Tiangong 1, a formerly inhabited space station, will visit an old friend soon, Earth.
Tiangong-1, meaning “heavenly palace”, was launched in 2011 by the Chinese Space Agency in an attempt to secure a permanent habitant in low earth orbit. For a time, it was successful acting as a base of operations for 3 separate missions but this came to an abrupt halt in September 2016. Chinese officials announced they’ve lost control of the 4th oldest space station in terms of orbit life.
This wouldn’t be the first blunder for the budding young space agency. If you recall, the Chinese Space Agency tested out space missiles on a non-operational satellite without notifying any other space agency. The debris caused by the incident wrecked havoc on all other space operations, manned and otherwise, while also making a terrible debris problem even worse.
With Tiangong-1, it was announced that the wayward base would reenter the earth’s atmosphere in October of 2017 but the time and place of reentry were uncertain given the lack of control. That window was later pushed back between October ’17 to April ’18. Now ESA, the European Space Agency, has given a more specific timeframe, March 29th to April 9th. They also narrowed the reentry locations to between the 43 degree north and the 43 degree south lines.
No one has ever gotten hurt from falling space debris but one person had been hit before. It is predicted that most of the craft won’t survive reentry but a few large chunks will not burn up as they pass through the atmosphere. Keep your eyes to the skies!
China's space agency is still young. They're still learning and hopefully they can improve on quality
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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
I can't believe that I'm walking on the fucking moon? Huston. we have a problem. We can't go to the moon. Why? Because of the Van Allan Radiation belt!
we came, we saw, we left with our skin boiling
True story. Space is a Hollywood fiction!
Q: How can that Tin Can ISS survive the unimaginable pressure, pressure and vacuum impossible to reproduce on earth? How can you test the machinery, space suits, equipment for the outer space conditions without being able to reproduce even 20% from the environment for which those are destined? hahaha!!!! How come ISS does not have sealed hatches as Submarines have? How come there is no time lapse video of the assembly of the "space" station? Do you folks even imagine what kind of temperatures and pressure of vacuum could be found out there if this "space" created in Hollywood sets ever exists.
Questions which a critical mind should ask! Peace out!
Why they don't launch one of their missile, they seem to like to blow up things ?
I understand you, the same thing happens to me. It's impossible not to think of a science fiction or action movie when you name a space station
https://steemit.com/science/@houidi/the-most-important-medical-achievements-in-2017
This reminds me of a movie - Gravity