China’s Tiangong-1 space station will crash into Earth within months
Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a Chinese space lab hurtling toward the earth.
Known as the Tiangong-1, the space station was launched by China’s National Space Administration in 2011 but is now headed for an out-of-control landing somewhere on our globe. Seriously.
China lost control of the 18,740 pound, 34-foot long space station — the first built and launched by the country — in 2016. Before that it was used for both manned and unmanned missions.
The lab’s re-entry is expected between now and April. But where? When? It’s hard to say.