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8.5-Ton Chinese Space Station Will Crash To Earth In a Few Months (cnbc.com)
dryriver writes:
China launched a space laboratory named Tiangong 1 into orbit in 2011. The space laboratory was supposed to become a symbol of China's ambitious bid to become a space superpower. After two years in space, Tiangong 1 started experiencing technical failure. Last year Chinese officials confirmed that the space laboratory had to be scrapped. The 8.5 ton heavy space laboratory has begun its descent towards Earth and is expected to crash back to Earth within the next few months.
Most of the laboratory is expected to burn up in earth's atmosphere, but experts believe that pieces as heavy as 100 kilograms (220 pounds) may survive re-entry and impact earth's surface. Nobody will be able to predict with any precision where those chunks of space laboratory will land on Earth until a few hours before re-entry occurs. The chance that anyone would be harmed by Tiangong-1's debris is considered unlikely.
When NASA's SkyLab fell to earth in 1979, an Australian town fined them $400 -- for littering.
Most of the laboratory is expected to burn up in earth's atmosphere, but experts believe that pieces as heavy as 100 kilograms (220 pounds) may survive re-entry and impact earth's surface. Nobody will be able to predict with any precision where those chunks of space laboratory will land on Earth until a few hours before re-entry occurs. The chance that anyone would be harmed by Tiangong-1's debris is considered unlikely.
When NASA's SkyLab fell to earth in 1979, an Australian town fined them $400 -- for littering.
The space laboratory was supposed to become a symbol of China's ambitious bid to become a space superpower. After two years in space, Tiangong 1 started experiencing technical failure. Last year Chinese officials confirmed that the space laboratory had to be scrapped.
Every time I buy Chinese made tech, I start out with high hopes for it. Then 2 years later everything starts breaking and I have to give up and scrap it and buy something good.
"Nobody will be able to predict with any precision where those chunks of space laboratory will land on Earth until a few hours before re-entry occurs."
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"The chance that anyone would be harmed by Tiangong-1's debris is considered unlikely."
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You're not allowed to assert this. ... I may be a debris, let me check ...
If a 100 kg debris make it to someone's body, he's very likely to be harmed.
But who am I to tell ? I not with NASA, nor a Chinese
Totof
Meet Georgia Lass (who prefers to be called George). She is a young Seattle college dropout who is unhappy with life. She is always at odds with her mom, Joy. One day coming back from her temp job as a filing clerk, she is hit by the toilet seat of the re-entering Space Station Mir. Finding out she is now dead, she is recruited to become a grim reaper.
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Seems to be the favorite place to crash space stations.
Those things will get you a post-it note for sure.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
"The chance that anyone would be harmed by Tiangong-1's debris is considered" SMALL, not "unlikely"
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"It is considered unlikely that anyone would be harmed by Tiangong-1's debris."
SLASHDOT EDITORS, EDIT !
FFS.
The junk will come down on a golf course in New Jersey during the middle of the workday.
Haha!
No, no. SOME made in china stuff is good. Almost as good as German stuff. But very, very, very, very, very-very-very, few things.
Sum-Tim Wong
Weteu lue
Frye Wedie....
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
I'm sure I'll feel like having the Chinese Space Station crash again an hour later.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Will Taco Bell put a floating target in the ocean again?
Why is it that we can predict eclipses down to the minute, years in advance, but we cannot predict where this hunk of junk is going to land? Is China still using thrusters on it to intentionally keep it afloat a while longer?
... turning it off and on again?
To the first person to deliver to me a confirmed piece of this alleged space station.
I'llbe on Slashdot, just send me a message when it hits.
The space laboratory was supposed to become a symbol of China's ambitious bid to become a space superpower. After two years in space, Tiangong 1 started experiencing technical failure.
It seems another case that we would like to find any opportunity to derogate China, even when it is clearly a case of technical and quality achievement?
Wikipedia entry on this space station: Tiangong-1 was initially projected to be deorbited in 2013,[11] to be replaced over the following decade by the larger Tiangong-2 and Tiangong-3 modules,[12] but as of June 2016 it was still aloft, though in a decaying orbit.
Will they have an appropriate WTO compliant export license? But seriously, why don't the send up a module that can steer it back to a known safe reentry.
- Tjp
I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!
Inclination of orbit = 42.8 degrees limits the potential area quite a bit. Personally I live far enough north to say "naah, can't be hit by that here. Chances = 0 for me".
Will break out popcorn when it does re-enter to see who (if any) are the lucky winners of having their neighborhood re-decorated with Chinese space hardware bits.
How to tell when it's really not your day.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
C'mon china world is waiting 4 you to clean up your mess.
I hope everyone's insurance is up to date...
The space laboratory started its descent the moment the booster that put it into orbit stopped firing. Not when china decided it had to be scrapped.
That's what happens when you use Chinese capacitor's, just ask Dell. LOL!
We let ours, the first, crash first. In the late seventies. And it weighed 80 tons.
*Hmph* We're the US, we make bigger booms....