Tiangong-1 space station crashes to Earth, narrowly misses Tahiti

(INTELLIHUB) — The Chinese Tiangong-1 space station splashed down to Earth in the South Pacific at 17,000 mph Sunday evening, narrowly missing Tahiti.

An analysis conducted by the Beijing Aerospace Control Center showed that the defunct craft mostly burnt up in the atmosphere during its descent.

The nine ton craft was approximately the size of a school bus and may have caused major damage if it hit a populated area.

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Chinese space station will fall to Earth on Easter, latest calculations show

(INTELLIHUB) — The falling Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is set to impact Earth 43°N and 43°S longitude on Easter Day around noon Eastern time, plus or minus 9-hous or so, according to data released by the Aerospace Corp.

Fireballs and debris are expected to rain down on a random swath of the planet, experts warn.

Keep your eyes to the sky and your cameras ready.

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Chinese space station will fall to Earth in just a few days: Head’s up

(INTELLIHUB) — The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 may come crashing down to Earth in the next week along with fireballs and a large swath of the planet is in the crosshairs.

Intellihub founder Shepard Ambellas gave the grim news on his radio show Tuesday, when he told the audience about the threat to human life.

“This Tiangong-1 is expected to crash into the Earth this week,” Ambellas said “It can reenter Earths atmosphere anywhere between 43°N longitude to 43°S longitude.”

You can listen to the entire broadcast about the falling space station here.

The Shepard Ambellas how airs weekdays (Mon-Fri) on AmericanFreedomRadio.com.

Featured Image: Tiangong-1 passing over moon, altitude 207 miles, range 600 miles. Faint, between aircraft and moon, over Lake Roosevelt. Saturn in lower right. (Rocky Raybell/Flickr)

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Chinese Space Station Will Crash To Earth Soon, Still Don’t Know Where It’ll Hit

Although most of the Tiangong-1, the Chinese space station erratically flying through space toward the Earth, will burn up in the atmosphere, there’s a chance part of it will survive and make an impact.  But scientists still don’t know who could be near the impact zone.

China’s prototype space station, Tiangong-1 or “heavenly place”, could re-enter the atmosphere as soon as this week. Scientists say that most of the eight-tonne spacecraft is expected to burn up as it plummets through the atmosphere, there is a chance some of it will survive all the way down to the surface.

While most of it will burn up during re-entry, around 10 to 40 percent of the satellite is expected to survive as debris, and some parts may contain dangerous hydrazine. However, due to changing conditions in space, it is not possible to accurately predict where the module will land. “It is only in the final week or so that we are going to be able to start speaking about it with more confidence,” said Dr. McDowell. “I would guess that a few pieces will survive re-entry. But we will only know where they are going to land after after the fact. –SHTFPlan, March 8, 2018

According to the Guardian, there’s no cause for alarm. In terms of size, Tiangong-1 is only the 50th largest spacecraft to come down, and there have been no recorded deaths or injuries from people being struck by debris from any of them. The largest uncontrolled entry was SkyLab, the 77-tonne United States space station, which disintegrated over Western Australia. It didn’t injure anyone but large parts of it were later collected.

The other concern is the highly toxic waste on board the space station.  A toxic chemical known as hydrazine is being carried by Tiangong-1. Hydrazine is an inorganic chemical compound. It is a colorless volatile alkaline liquid with powerful reducing properties, used in chemical synthesis and in some kinds of rocket fuels. Hydrazine is highly toxic and dangerously unstable unless handled in solution.

The changes of the spacecraft hitting anywhere populated are slim to none, but the toxic chemical hydrazine could still be damaging regardless of the place of impact.

Out Of Control Chinese Space Station Carrying Toxic Waste Will Crash To Earth In Days

China’s first prototype station, Tiangong-1, will come crashing back to Earth between March 29 and April 9, experts say. The space station is carrying toxic waste, and it’s still unknown where Tiangong-1 will actually hit once it falls back to the planet.

The Chinese space station is said to be errant and out of control while carrying extremely hazardous toxic waste.  The problem is that the space station is going to crash into the Earth within the next 21 days, and experts have no idea where it’s going to land.

According to The Daily Mail, the doomed 8.5-tonne craft, which has been hurtling towards Earth since control was lost in 2016, is believed to contain dangerous hydrazine. Agencies around the world who have been monitoring its descent believe it has a higher chance of hitting Europe, the US, Australia, and New Zealand. However, no one really knows where it’s most likely to actually impact.

Tiangong, which translates to “heavenly palace,” is being closely monitored by the European Space Agency (ESA), based in Paris and their Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, and were able to make the prediction that the space station will hit Earth earlier this week.

In recent days Aerospace, a US research organization that advises government and private enterprise on space flight also updated its re-entry window. It said the space station will enter the Earth’s atmosphere on April 3, give or take a week. “Every couple of years something like this happens, but Tiangong-1 is big and dense so we need to keep an eye on it,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist from Harvard University told the Guardian. 

While most of it will burn up during re-entry, around 10 to 40 percent of the satellite is expected to survive as debris, and some parts may contain dangerous hydrazine. However, due to changing conditions in space, it is not possible to accurately predict where the module will land. “It is only in the final week or so that we are going to be able to start speaking about it with more confidence,” said D. McDowell. “I would guess that a few pieces will survive re-entry. But we will only know where they are going to land after after the fact.”

In recent months, the spacecraft has been speeding up and it is now falling by around 6km (3.7 miles) a week. In October it was falling at 1.5km (0.9 miles) a week.

Heads-up: Massive Chinese space station drifting, falling, “uncontrolled” back to Earth after contact lost, toxic propellant on board

There is a 1-in-10,000 chance the space station will hit a densely populated area when it comes crashing down sometime in March, experts warn

(INTELLIHUB) — A massive 19,000-pound Chinese space station named Tiangong-1 is expected to come crashing back down to Earth sometime in March and has a 1-in-10,000 chance of hitting a densely populated area, experts warn.

The Chinese lost control of the space lab in 2016 and it has been adrift ever since in a continuously exponential kinetic decent.

ABC News reports: “Scientists have only been able to narrow the crash zone down to between the 43° North and 43° South latitudes; an area that still includes parts of every inhabited continent on Earth.”

A highly-toxic propellant is on board.

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Featured Image: Tiangong 1 passing over the moon, altitude 207 miles, range 600 miles. Faint, between aircraft and moon, over Lake Roosevelt. Saturn in the lower right. (Rocky Raybell/Flickr)

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