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In a press conference on Wednesday, Chinese officials appear to have confirmed what many observers have long suspected: that China is no longer in control of its space station.China's Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years now, but recently it was decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to the surface. In a press conference last week, China announced that the space station would be falling back to earth at some point in late 2017.excerpt
Whatever goes up, must eventually come down. Any idea where it might come down (Mecca would be a good target).
This is sad. I hope it falls in the ocean. I wouldn’t want it to fall on a land mass and hurt someone. Wouldn’t a lot of it burn up when it gets into Earth’s atmosphere?
China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to EarthChina's space agency confirms the Tiangong space station will burn up sometime late next yearhttp://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22936/tiangong-falling-to-earth/
China has no control over when or where it comes down. They are still way behind where the US and USSR were in the 80's