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hubie [soylentnews.org] writes:

China confirmed in a press conference [xinhuanet.com], that Tiangong-1, their first space station put into orbit in 2011, will re-enter and burn up in the atmosphere [popularmechanics.com] 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 [astronautix.com] did in 1979.

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