Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Where will it land?

Monica Grady reports at Science Alert,
China launched the second vehicle in its Tiangong (meaning "heavenly palace") programme to construct a space station in early September.

Despite the success of the launch, the announcement was overshadowed by the acknowledgement that the prototype module Tiangong-1 – which was always due to be replaced – is out of control, and will, almost certainly, crash back down to Earth in late 2017.
Read more here.

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