Out-of-control Chinese space station 'will crash into Earth over weekend'

www.mirror.co.uk ^ | Updated11:05, 23 MAR 2018 | ByJeff ParsonsTech/Science reporter

[Red Badger]

The European Space Agency has revised its prediction for when free-falling Tiangong-1 will crash into Earth.

The out-of-control Chinese space station will crash down back to Earth over Easter weekend, experts have said.

According to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, debris from Tiangong-1 will splash down between March 30 and April 2 across the northern hemisphere.

The space agency said these dates were "highly variable" and that it would be offering revised forecasts every couple of days.

"At no time will a precise time/location prediction from ESA be possible," it explained in a statement .

"This forecast was updated approximately weekly through to mid-March, and is now being updated every 1~2 days."

[freedomson]

I can’t wait to tinker with that thing after it lands in my backyard!

[\/\/ayne]

"Ohhh, my satellite is falling!"
"No, it's my satellite!"

[Red Badger]

If it has any hydrazine left in it’s tanks, you best wear gloves..................

[Paladin2]

There is a green band north of the yellow band in the northern hemisphere. What is that?

[fwdude]

Is Sandra Bullock piloting it?

[Crucial]

Perhaps hit it with a Patriot missile to disperse the wreckage?

[Buckeye McFrog]

The yellow line goes right through my backyard.

We can onry deriver south of 29th. Street.

[Red Badger]

18 thousand pounds [9 tons] of ‘dispersed wreckage’?....................

[al baby]

An hour after i see it burn up and crash I want to see another one

[Red Badger]

No, unfortunately..................

[Red Badger]

Safe..................

[cyclotic]

I don’t know, I don’t read Chinese

[Larry Lucido]

He needed a name. This is the guy who wouldn't deliver below 48th Street.

[Alberta's Child]

Wouldn’t it ironic if it crashed in New York City and destroyed an entire city block ... in Chinatown? :-P

[PLMerite]

“Looks like it could come down in that same part of Australia where Skylab crashed in the 70’s.”

Maybe the piles of wreckage will get together and make a giant Transformer monster.

Dibs on the movie rights to that idea...

It’s early, I’m not fully awake yet.

[Larry Lucido]

And try to avoid hitting a Seinfeld Ping on a bicycle.

[Vermont Lt]

Please land on my house.

Please. Please.

[Vermont Lt]

Get the number to the local Chinese Consulate.

[skimbell]

Heat waves due to the effects of...Global warming.

[PIF]

Anarctica?