Failed Chinese Space Station Is Racing Towards The Earth, Will Crash-Land Within Weeks

Space missions are not always successful. Sometimes they create history and at other times, they fail to the point of no-return. Like the failed Chinese space station that is planning to crash-land on planet Earth.

The Tiangong-1 Chinese space station may hit Earth within the next few weeks. However, scientists have not yet been able to decipher where exactly the 8.5-tonne module will land.?

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Aerospace Corporation estimates that the space lab will re-enter the atmosphere during the first week of April. The European Space Agency says the station will crash-land between 24th March and 19th April.

In a statement, the Corporation said that there was “a chance that a small amount of debris” from the module will re-enter and hit the Earth. “If this should happen, any surviving debris would fall within a region that is a few hundred kilometres in size,” said Aerospace.

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Aerospace also added that the Tiangong-1 Chinese space station might be carrying a highly toxic, cancer-causing chemical on-board called hydrazine.?

The report also shows a map depicting the module making a re-entry somewhere between 43° north and 43° south latitudes. The chances of re-entry are higher in northern China, the Middle East, central Italy, northern Spain and the northern states of the US, New Zealand, Tasmania, parts of South America and southern Africa.

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Aerospace did specify that the chances of people being hit by the debris were very little. “When considering the worst-case location...the probability that a specific person (ie, you) will be struck by Tiangong-1 debris is about one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot," said Aerospace.?

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It was in 2016 that China admitted, it had lost control of Tiangong-1 and that it would be unable to perform a controlled re-entry of the module. Well, since the chances of human casualties is next to none, we do feel a little better. But, the cancer-causing stuff on board is still bothering us a bit.