The spacecraft is expected to crash uncontrolled sometime overnight on april 1 or 2.
Chinese satellite falling to earth.
Normally a decommissioned satellite or space station would be.
Debris from the 6 ton satellite ended up falling into the pacific ocean causing no damage.
Scientists will analyze the data and how well it performed.
China s own space program raised major concerns after it used a missile to destroy an out of service.
Hong kong cnn china s second space lab will return to earth in a controlled demolition friday according to the country s space agency.
In a press conference last week china announced that the space station would be falling back to earth at some point in late 2017.
Watching the stars tonight we could hit with space junk any moment.
Amateur footage posted on chinese social media site weibo.
Footage of the launch of the first gaofen 11 in 2018 indicated the satellite was a large aperture telescope for earth observation.
An out of control chinese space station is expected to plunge to earth in about a week.
Reentry window from now into the middle of next week.
Chip reid takes a look.
Experts say it s extremely unlikely that large pieces of the school bus sized tiangong 1 will survive.
The rocket s empty core stage weighing nearly 18 tons is.
China abandoned a space station in 2016 and it s been falling to earth since.
An artist s illustration of china s tiangong 1 space station falling to earth as it burns up in the atmosphere.