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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 25 2016, @11:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-goes-up... dept.

China confirmed in a press conference, that Tiangong-1, their first space station put into orbit in 2011, will re-enter and burn up in the atmosphere sometime in late 2017. There seems to be some uncertainty in when it will re-enter the atmosphere, which leads one to believe that the station is not under orbital control and that it will come back to Earth in the same manner that Skylab did in 1979.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @05:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2016, @05:18PM (#406315)

    You can't really "shoot down" something that's in orbit. All you can do it spread it out a bit. Quite a lot, in fact.

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