China’s first space station was decimated in a fireball over the South Pacific — here’s how it went from launch to crashing back to Earth

Fraunhofer FHR At approximately 8:16 p.m. ET on April 1, Chinese space station Tiangong-1‘s orbit around the planet finally decayed enough that it was caught up in the thicker air that surrounds our planet. Tiangong-1 was launched launched in September 2011. It was a major step for the Chinese space program — a place to […]