Just Sharing This CHINA’S OUT-OF-CONTROL TIANGONG-1 SPACE STATION TO CRASH BACK TO EARTH EARLY 2018.

Archive-8 · Sep 19, 2017

An out-of-control spacecraft will come crashing down to Earth sometime in January or February 2018, a new calculation predicts.

China announced it had lost control of the Tiangong-1 space station in September 2016 and initially thought the spacecraft would fall back to Earth in “late 2017.” Since then, refined estimates have put the date of re-entry at some point between December 2017 and March 2018.

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2cvbloke · Sep 19, 2017

Tin hats and chairs at the ready then...

Analoguesat · Sep 19, 2017

2cvbloke said:
Tin hats and chairs at the ready then...

You can safely put them away - the maximum inclination of Tiangong 1 is about 40 degrees.The UK & most of Europe is totally safe.

sonnetpete · Sep 19, 2017

Chris1979 said:
China announced it had lost control of the Tiangong-1 space station in September 2016 and initially thought the spacecraft would fall back to Earth in “late 2017.” Since then, refined estimates have put the date of re-entry at some point between December 2017 and March 2018.

Could North Korea use it for target practice??

archive10 · Sep 19, 2017

sonnetpete said:
Could North Korea use it for target practice??

Well, maybe China could use North Korea as target practice for this (apparently) space-borne weapon?
Would that not be poetic justice if the Tiangong-1 crashed into Pyongyang?

archive10 · Sep 19, 2017

st1 said:
Well, maybe China could use North Korea as target practice for this (apparently) space-borne weapon?
Would that not be poetic justice if the Tiangong-1 crashed into Pyongyang?

Except, no, 'coz it would hit the surpressed masses of the totalitarian regime... the spitzenklasse would be off hunting somewhere, I guess.
(And no, not feed-hunting).

Topper · Sep 20, 2017

sonnetpete said:
Could North Korea use it for target practice??

We live in hope :rolleyes:

Channel Hopper · Sep 20, 2017

2cvbloke said:
Tin hats and chairs at the ready then...

A respectable forum member would have them permanently riveted on.

shawl_who · Sep 21, 2017

typical chinese products.... cheap and non-durable. :-lol

Lazarus · Sep 21, 2017

..... and yet we all buy them .....

How are standards where you live? :rolleyes:

sonnetpete · Sep 21, 2017

shawl_who said:
typical chinese products.... cheap and non-durable.

It's been up there since 2011, was supposed to be de-orbited in 2013 and they lost telemetry last year....sounds fairly durable to me..

shawl_who · Sep 21, 2017

Lazarus said:
..... and yet we all buy them .....

How are standards where you live?

You got me wrong.

Its a general perception about chinese products and was sarcastically said.

Standards are pretty good in my part of the world, but yes overall condition inIndia still needs a whole lot of improvement.

The Rascals · Sep 21, 2017

Maybe we could use it here, as we having broadband rollout to rural areas since 2012 but nothing has happened yet.
I think the problem is that our Government Communications Dept do not know how to roll it out, as they have only realised recently
that data comes in chunks and chunks cannot be round.

Analoguesat · Sep 21, 2017

A couple of good firecracker solar flares could thicken up the atmosphere enough to bring it down early.....

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