{"id":78111,"date":"2018-03-06T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78111"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:11:21","slug":"chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78111","title":{"rendered":"China’s Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tiangong<\/p>\n

Live in northern China, the Middle East, central Italy, northern Spain or the northern states of the US, New Zealand, Tasmania, parts of South America and southern Africa? Then I have some bad news for you.<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a> reports China\u2019s first space station is expected to come crashing down to Earth within weeks, but scientists have not been able to predict where the 8.5-tonne module will hit. <\/p>\n

Estimates differ, but the US-funded Aerospace Corporation thinks the Tiangong-1 will re-enter the atmosphere during the first week of April, give or take a week, while the European Space Agency says the module will come down between 24 March and 19 April. They\u2019re just a bit vague on the \u201cwhere\u201d part.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this should happen, any surviving debris would fall within a region that is a few hundred kilometres in size,\u201d said Aerospace, a research organization that advises government and private enterprise on space flight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen considering the worst-case location \u2026 the probability that a specific person (ie, you) will be struck by Tiangong-1 debris is about one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the history of spaceflight no known person has ever been harmed by reentering space debris. Only one person has ever been recorded as being hit by a piece of space debris and, fortunately, she was not injured.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would guess that a few pieces will survive re-entry. But we will only know where they are going to land after the fact.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aerospace Corperation warned that the space station might be carrying a highly toxic and corrosive fuel called hydrazine on board, so there\u2019s that. I certainly feel better, now. Thank you Chinese rocket scientists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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