China Satellite Falling To Malaysia

Tiangong 1 is the first chinese space station and a successor tiangong 2.

China satellite falling to malaysia.

China s second space lab will return to earth in july 2019 in a controlled destruction the country s space agency said wednesday. Kuala lumpur malaysia search planes dispatched thursday to examine an area where chinese satellite images showed what might have been debris from the missing malaysia airlines flight 370 found. To destroy an out. 6 ton satellite ended up falling into the pacific ocean causing no damage.

The incident shows how space debris threatens the planet satellites and spacecraft. A chinese long march 4b rocket successfully launched a new earth watching satellite monday sep. The final hours for china s tiangong 2 space station are at hand as the eight ton piece of hardware will fall to earth or rather sea some time in the. A satellite nasa launched 56 years ago to study earth s magnetosphere is set to make a fiery homecoming on saturday when the orbiting geophysics observatory 1 ogo 1 re enters our atmosphere.

China subsequently lost contact with the space station in 2016 and tiangong 1 has been falling to earth ever since. An 18 ton chinese rocket plummeted toward earth and landed in the atlantic ocean on may 11.