China’s Tiangong space station has been completely out of control and is expected to crash down within a few weeks. Aeronautical and space agencies from over the world is predicting its downfall somewhere around early 2018 but unfortunately, no one could forecast its point of landing on earth.
The name Tiangong, also known as the heavenly palace in English managed to host a number of Chinese astronauts before its mission ended in 2016. Around that time, the Chinese space agency announced that they lost all sorts of communication with the spacecraft and it will be soon crashing to crash when it finally gets detached from its orbit.
Aerospace, a research organization and an advisory body to public a private space flight enterprises announced, “If this should happen, any surviving debris would fall within a region that is a few hundred kilometers in size.” They also warned that the space station might be carrying a substance called hydrazine which is highly toxic and corrosive in nature.
The report from aerospace includes a map showing the module is expected to re-enter somewhere between 43° north and 43° south latitudes which includes places in northern China, the Middle East, central Italy, northern Spain and the northern states of the US, parts of South America, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Southern Africa. But Aerospace also insisted that the probability of hitting a highly populated region is low. “In the history of spaceflight no known person has ever been harmed by reentering space debris. Only one person has ever been recorded as being hit by a piece of space debris and, fortunately, she was not injured.”
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist from Harvard University said fragments from a similar-sized rocket re-entered the atmosphere and landed in Peru in January. He also insisted on the fact that all the space and flight organizational bodies should be alert and keep an eye on it.
> Raisa Adiba
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