The Chinese Tiangong-1 space station is crashing down to Earth on April 1st. Colored in red are the potential areas to be hit.
The station is out of control (like most Chinese spacecraft) and its crash zone cannot yet be accurately predicted.
When the Soviet MIR station was decommissioned, a controlled burn brought it down in the pacific, and it still had a 3000km debris field. Tiangong-1 is larger, and there will not be a controlled burn. The debris field will be more than that.
Mir was 129 tons, the second largest manmade object ever placed in orbit after the International Space Station, and had 350 cubic meters of pressurized volume.
Tiangong-1 is eight tons with 15 cubic meters of pressurized volume. It's a tin can.
In fact, Tiangong-1 is almost exactly the same size as that cute little Soyuz capsule that's docked to Mir on the right side of this image.
>15 cubic meters of pressurized volume I always thought it'd be about the size of a Salyut station, which is the core module of Mir, but that's far tinier, jesus. It's not much larger than their spaceship.
Charles Myers
i hope it crashes on brussels
Isaac Turner
there's always next time
i'm sure chinese junk will fall out of orbit on a regular basis in the future
Brandon Torres
my yard
Oliver Thompson
Texas
Chase Butler
>Amerimutt education
Jose Scott
Damascus >Isaiah 17
Noah Lewis
It will likely just fall in the ocean, but who knows, it might fall on Netanyahu.
Kayden Turner
40.580743, -74.337042
Christopher Watson
I hope my area is in the debris field, that space junk is gonna be worth $$$
Parker Myers
Right on Erdogan's house
Luke Bailey
Let us have our fun.
Jackson Ramirez
Israel.
Owen Peterson
>anti-happening concern trolling
RAUS
Luke Jackson
Yeah, the size comparison is pretty clear
And really unimpressive compared even to cans the Americans and Soviets were launching 50 years ago
a handful of tonnes of light material burning up in the atmosphere wont do anything even if lan large piece survives reentry the low mass reaching terminal velocity wont do shit maybe destroy a tree or 2