Chinese space lab burns up on re entry over pacific ocean april 2 2018 stephen clark if you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming.
Chinese satellite reentry map.
The name is variously translated as divine vessel divine craft or divine ship.
Its design resembles the russian soyuz spacecraft but it is larger in size the first launch was on 19 november 1999 and the.
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China s space program remains highly secretive and some experts have complained that a lack of information about tiangong 1 s design made it harder to predict what might happen upon its re entry.
Some fragments could survive the fiery reentry but experts say the risk to humans on the ground is small.
This map illustrates some of the possible tracks the long march 5b rocket body could take on monday the expected day of re entry.
An exact location of the re entry cannot be predicted with certainty.
The tiangong 1 station will mostly burn up as it plummets through earth s atmosphere.