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China's Tiangong-2 Space Station is Officially No More

posted by chromas on Sunday July 21 2019, @07:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the fried-rice dept.

MrPlow writes for SoyCow1984:

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/

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Monday July 22 2019, @01:38AM

    by driverless (4770) on Monday July 22 2019, @01:38AM (#869791)

    The conversion scale is quite simple, 9 US tons = 3 Americans.

    You're welcome.

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