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Chinese Space Station Burns Up On Re-entry in South Pacific (reviewjournal.com)
cold fjord writes: Chinese space authorities say the defunct Tiangong 1 space station mostly burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere over the central South Pacific. The China Manned Space Engineering Office said the experimental space laboratory re-entered around 8:15 a.m. Monday. Scientists monitoring the craft's disintegrating orbit had forecast the craft would mostly burn up and would pose only the slightest of risks to people. Analysis from the Beijing Aerospace Control Center showed it had mostly burned up. Launched in 2011, Tiangong 1 was China's first space station, serving as an experimental platform for bigger projects, such as the Tiangong 2 launched in September 2016 and a future permanent Chinese space station. Two crews of Chinese astronauts lived on the station while testing docking procedures and other operations. Its last crew departed in 2013 and contact with it was cut in 2016.
Good that it was like skylab no harm to anyone.
Only burning inside the prison for life instead.
Just buy another one! Cheap shit. Made in China. Whadayaxpect?
Not even "lucky", harming someone would have been very unlucky.
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That 08:15 would be Chinese time (UTC+8),
https://www.space.com/40101-china-space-station-tiangong-1-crashes.html
Even minutes before the splash-down Western authorities were saying that the Tiangong-1 spaceship was aiming for the Atlantic, off the coast of Brazil, at 00:49 GMT, or so
And then China chimed in, telling the world that their ship has largely burned up in Southern Pacific, at 00:16 GMT, or so
It took US military another 30 minutes to confirm Chinese' version of re-entry
Methinks the Chinese had some spare fuel left on board - not enough to safely guide it to crash land at the usual 'satellite graveyard' but they used it, at the last minutes, to power-up their boosters to push the craft into a quicker re-entry orbit, to avoid a possible crash landing on Chilean or Brazilian soil
08:16 Beijing Time means 8:16 am in the morning, Beijing Time
8:16 pm EDT means 8:16 pm, at night (or evening, which ever way you wanna call it), EDT
Like all Chinese electronics, it is highly probable that the control failure can be traced back to poorly screened capacitors.
Don't forget to get back Sandra Bullock. She's ours!
Hope Patti LuPone wasn't in the cast.
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Of course it landed in the region of lowest payout! And I put all my bets into it landing somewhere in the vicinity of 37.485,-122.148. There goes my life savings!
came as a 30mplete
They probably lost communications with it during a systemd patch update.
Even minutes before the splash-down Western authorities were saying that the Tiangong-1 spaceship was aiming for the Atlantic, off the coast of Brazil, at 00:49 GMT, or so
No. I was following this one, and most of the authorities were actually saying we don't know exactly where it will hit, here's the latest update and the best guess for impact, which was always a wide range.
At the very end they were saying "it will enter on this orbit, here's the ground track"-- and the final orbit's ground track passed over the South Atlantic, continued over South Africa, and went on to the Pacific. Where on that final orbit it would hit depended very sensitively on exaclty how it was oriented and how much drag and how early it would start to break apart, something difficult to predict for a relatively simple satellite and very very hard to estimate for something as complex as Taingong-1. Nobody was giving exact predictions "it will land here."
I mean, why does a musical need crashing burning space stations???
..it wasnt the House of the Elders burnt to a crisp. I hope Russia nukes those old chinks and decapitates China for 200 years...
Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)
Plot 555
Misau Street
PMB 437
Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA
Dear Mr. Sir,
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.
In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.
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This is a tragedy for the technological future of the human race. A small tragedy, but it's there. X amount of money spent on the project, and the only return on investment is a few bits of charred metal. We're becoming short on funding and education for the space program. We're more concerned with welfare and war then we are with finding a new front to expand into. We're short on ambition and ideas (no matter how obvious, or how long ago they were written down). We're running out of space traveling machines and the ability to build them. And nobody wants to admit that we're running out of fuel. It's 2018 and we don't even have a moonbase. It was so much effort for China to put Tiangong up, they could have at least given it a hard landing in a moon crater. No matter how pancaked the result, at least putting the metal and parts on the lunar surface would have been more useful than letting it fall back to Earth uselessly.
Awww I was really looking forward to some space station parts....