A defunct chinese space station is expected to plunge to earth from its orbital perch in early april.
Satellite falling to earth april 2018.
An artist s illustration of china s tiangong 1 space station falling to earth as it burns up in the atmosphere.
On april 1 2018 china s tiangong 1 space laboratory fell out of the sky breaking apart and burning up in the skies over the southern pacific ocean at about 8 16 p m.
487 kilograms satellite which is expected to die a fiery death in our planet s atmosphere this weekend.
New observations show that earth s gravity has finally caught up with the 1 070 lb.
April 2 2018 11 09 am cbs ap.
According to the ucs database of the 453 objects launched in 2017 only 390 of them were still in space at the end of the april 2018.
The spacecraft is expected to crash uncontrolled sometime overnight on april 1 or 2.
The tiangong 1 station will mostly burn up as it plummets through earth s atmosphere.
Edt 0016 april 2 gmt.
14 had already returned to earth of course some may have been brought back due to to malfunctions but a lot of the small satellites only have short lifespans and could have already completed their missions.