Chinese Satellite Reentry Trajectory

Period is the time that the satellite takes to complete an orbit around the earth counted from perigee to perigee.

Chinese satellite reentry trajectory. China s first ever space laboratory tiangong 1 will fall to earth within the next week and weather permitting you may be able to see it from the ground. China s space program remains highly secretive and some experts have complained that a lack of information about tiangong 1 s design made it harder to predict what might happen upon its re entry. The china national space administration indicated that the 18 meter wide station and solar panels will mostly burn up during reentry but that a small amount of debris may fall in a safe area. An artist s illustration of china s tiangong 1 space station falling to earth as it burns up in the atmosphere.

Some fragments could survive the fiery reentry but experts say the risk to humans on the ground is small. The 19 6 ton 17 800 kilogram body of chinese rocket slammed into the planet s atmosphere today may 11. Washington nasa administrator jim bridenstine criticized china may 15 for the really dangerous reentry of a large rocket stage earlier in the week that led to debris landing in africa. Altitude is the.

Azimuth and elevation are the local coordinates and they inform the position on the sky where the observer should look to see the satellite or to point out his antenna. The tiangong 1 station will mostly burn up as it plummets through earth s atmosphere. Indicates the amount in kilometers existing between the observer and the satellite. It was the biggest such incident since 1991.