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Tiangong-1 reentry window narrows to Easter Sunday
Latest predictions indicate that China’s defunct Tiangong-1 space laboratory will fall to Earth most likely on April 1.
According to updated calculations made by The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit corporation providing technical guidance and advice on all aspects of space missions, the school bus-size station will enter the atmosphere around 11:15 a.m. EDT (15:15 GMT) plus or minus 14 hours.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has also updated its forecast regarding Tiangong-1’s descent. ESA’s Space Debris Office, which coordinates the agency’s research relating to space debris, now predicts that the spacecraft will fall to the planet between the night of March 31 and late evening of April 1.
The office said these estimates are always subject to change due to an array of variables, including variations of the atmosphere due to solar activity.
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Just to narrow it down a bit, anywhere between 43N and 43S could potentially end up with a hole in the roof.
Up here at the rarefied latitude of 51 45N we can confidently leave our tin helmets on the hook in the hall.
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