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The Tiangong-1 spacecraft is 12 m long with a diameter of 3.3 m and had a launch mass of 8506 kg. It has been unoccupied since 2013 and there has been no contact with it since 2016.
The craft is now at about 300 km altitude in an orbit that will inevitably decay sometime between January and March 2018, when it will make an uncontrolled re-entry.
Owing to the geometry of the station’s orbit, we can already exclude the possibility that any fragments will fall over any spot further north than 43ºN or further south than 43ºS This means that re-entry may take place over any spot on Earth between these latitudes, which includes several European countries, for example.
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ESA joins reentry campaign
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The craft is now at about 300 km altitude in an orbit that will inevitably decay sometime between January and March 2018, when it will make an uncontrolled re-entry.
Owing to the geometry of the station’s orbit, we can already exclude the possibility that any fragments will fall over any spot further north than 43ºN or further south than 43ºS This means that re-entry may take place over any spot on Earth between these latitudes, which includes several European countries, for example.
Link
ESA joins reentry campaign
Mods please move if incorrect section
