New information released this month by China confirms that Tiangong-1 is crashing back to Earth.
In a press conference China’s space agency confirmed had lost contract with the space lab, and it was now due to for an uncontrolled re-entry in late 2017. Tiangong-1 was launched into space in 2011, and then visited twice by Chinese astronauts in 2012 and 2013. Since then however, an undisclosed malfunction has caused the…
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