China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth

[geronl]

China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth
China's space agency confirms the Tiangong space station will burn up sometime late next year

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.

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http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22936/tiangong-falling-to-earth/

[Frank Cannon]

Cheap Chinese garbage.

[Oceander]

Whatever goes up, must eventually come down.  Any idea where it might come down (Mecca would be a good target).

[Gefn]

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?

[geronl]

Whatever goes up, must eventually come down.  Any idea where it might come down (Mecca would be a good target).

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

[geronl]

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?

Earth is mostly ocean and yes, most of it burns up on the way down

[Idiot]

China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth
China's space agency confirms the Tiangong space station will burn up sometime late next year
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22936/tiangong-falling-to-earth/

Well...I'll be needing a new roof by then anyway. 

[Cripplecreek]

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?

I wouldn't mind being mildly injured by it.

I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem getting off $10 million to prevent me from costing them 100 mil.

[Oceander]

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

I was thinking more of the Godly sort of guidance, or the beneficence of blind luck (or blind justice, more like).

[Wingnut]

Good excuse to have another Skylab type party again.  The one we had in 1979 was a blast!