CHINA'S SPACE LAB TO CRASH EARTH - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW!
CHINA’S SPACE LAB EXPECTED TO CRASH EARTH BY THIS WEEK This photo was released by the China’s Xinhua News Agency. It shows a Long March-2FT1 carrier rocket loaded with Tiangong-1 unmanned space lab module that blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuguan Satellite Launch Center in the Northwest China's Gansu Province at Thursday, Set. 29 th , 2011. China’s prototype space station, Tiangong-1 or “heavenly place”, is expected to fall to Earth and could re-enter the atmosphere as soon as this week. Tiangong-1 has entered its final phase of life on March 16 th and Officially Stopped sending Data. The Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace is orbiting at an average height of about 216.2 kilometers from the Earth but it did not disclose any re-entry location. A Chinese Aerospace expert stated that it is impossible to name the exact re-entry location at the present stage. He also told that the approximate re-entry location cannot be decided until the last 120 mi...
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