An artist s illustration of china s tiangong 1 space station falling to earth as it burns up in the atmosphere.
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Here s everything you need to know about the impending fall.
China subsequently lost contact with the space station in 2016 and tiangong 1 has been falling to earth ever since.
The data were collected by the tropospheric monitoring instrument on esa s sentinel 5 satellite.
The spacecraft is expected to crash uncontrolled sometime overnight on april 1 or 2.
Tiangong 1 is the first chinese space station and a successor tiangong 2.
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China s second space lab will return to earth in july 2019 in a controlled destruction the country s space agency said wednesday.
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China s tiangong 1 space station is expected to plunge to earth between march 29 and april 4.
China s own space program raised major concerns after it used a missile to destroy an out of service chinese satellite in 2007 creating a large and potentially dangerous cloud of debris.
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