Monday, April 02, 2018

Chinese Tiangong-1 space station burns up over Pacific Ocean - CNET

Image result for Tiangong-1Chinese Tiangong-1 space station burns up over Pacific Ocean - CNET:
"China's out-of-control Tiangong-1 space station is no more, or at least it is no longer what it once was. Whatever bits of the spacecraft didn't burn up on its long descent through the atmosphere are now likely headed to their final resting place on the floor of the south Pacific.
The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California reports that Tiangong-1 re-entered Earth's atmosphere over the ocean near Tahiti at approximately 5:16 p.m. PT on Sunday..."

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