China’s Tiangong-1 space station could fall to Earth on Easter weekend

China’s decommissioned Tiangong-1 space station is heading back to Earth. 

Hour by hour, Tiangong-1 — whose name translates to “Heavenly Palace” — gets closer and closer to re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, and mostly burning up in the process. 

Trackers have been following the space station’s descent over the course of a number of weeks, gathering radar images and coming up with estimates for when it’ll come down.  

The European Space Agency (ESA) is now predicting that the space station will fall to Earth sometime over Easter weekend, between March 31 and April 2. Read more…

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