Tag: Chinese National Space Agency

Tiangong-1 Is Coming Down Tonight (Update: It Did)

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By the time most people read this, the event will already have happened and I will have my follow-up article on the subject, but for now, this is still worth writing about. UPDATE: It re-entered at 8:16 PM Central Daylight Time – https://www.xadara.com/tiangong-1-is-gone/ Tiangong-1 is now estimate by the European Space Agency to re-enter sometime […]

An Update On Tiangong-1 – China’s Doomed Space Station

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Back in October I gave a status update on Tiangong-1, China’s first Space Station, and how, since the end of crewed operations, contact and control of the station has been lost. Well, we are approaching the final week or so of the stations time in orbit, and the situation hasn’t changed – it’s still out […]