Chinese space station Tiangong-2 has officially ended its mission, and the orbital research facility's entire existence. The platform de-orbited and burned up as planned at just after 9 AM ET on Friday, coming down over the South Pacific Ocean, as confirmed by the official Chinese space agency.
The station weighed around nine U.S. tons at the time it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, but even so it was small enough that it almost entirely burned up in the process.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/19/chinas-tiangong-2-space-station-is-officially-no-more/
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 21 2019, @08:20PM
1 US ton = 493,986.253723 Chinese tons.