The shape of China's falling space station Tiangong-1 can be seen in this radar image from the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques near Bonn, Germany. Launched in 2011, Tiangong-1 is about the size of a school bus. Its solar arrays are clearly visible.
Credit: Fraunhofer FHR
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Magnificent technology!
Wonder if you can sue China if it lands on your house or maybe send them a box of cookies if it lands on the senate.
168 miles isn’t that low. Is it in a very elliptical orbit?
Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep watching the skies!
I saw a satellite fall from the sky once. It was night, and it looked like an orange ball going from west to east. I thought it was a UFO, then the newspaper said the next morning that it was a Russian satellite that crashed in Montana. It was only about the size of a suitcase. Imagine what this one will look like. It will probably be over the ocean, however.
For those about to be obliterated, we salute you!
Wow, it’s already burning up!
My first car was a 1973 Plymouth Satellite. I bought it for $700. A $100 per working cylinder. I drove it for 45,000 miles. Best $700 I ever spent.
Trump gonna slap an import tarrif on this Chinese import?
Now, where did I place my SkyLab T-shirt?