China Satellite Falling To Malaysia

The final hours for china s tiangong 2 space station are at hand as the eight ton piece of hardware will fall to earth or rather sea some time in the.

China satellite falling to malaysia. An 18 ton chinese rocket plummeted toward earth and landed in the atlantic ocean on may 11. European space agency releases new information about the spacecraft that is plunging toward earth. 7 but its first stage narrowly missed a school when it fell back to earth. Tiangong 1 is the first chinese space station and a successor tiangong 2.

To destroy an out. China subsequently lost contact with the space station in 2016 and tiangong 1 has been falling to earth ever since. Kuala lumpur malaysia search planes dispatched thursday to examine an area where chinese satellite images showed what might have been debris from the missing malaysia airlines flight 370 found. 6 ton satellite ended up falling into the pacific ocean causing no damage.

A satellite nasa launched 56 years ago to study earth s magnetosphere is set to make a fiery homecoming on saturday when the orbiting geophysics observatory 1 ogo 1 re enters our atmosphere. The incident shows how space debris threatens the planet satellites and spacecraft.