He stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Posted on 04/02/2018 6:13:56 AM PDT by upchuck
According to multiple agencies tracking the space station’s movements, 34-foot-long spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at 8:16 p.m. ET above the southern Pacific Ocean.
While a few of the charred bits of Tiangong-1 — which translates to Heavenly Palace — may have made it all the way to the ground, it’s still unclear exactly where they may have landed. In all likelihood, the bits of space debris wouldn’t have landed in a populated area...
The odds of being hit by a falling piece of space junk about about 1 in 300 trillion, according to some estimates.
Until today, it wasn’t exactly clear when or where Tiangong-1 would re-enter. Tracking a fast-moving, uncontrolled spacecraft flying around the Earth every 90 minutes isn’t exactly easy.
As the day progressed, however, trackers managed to slowly narrow down where the station would fall.
Tiangong-1, which launched to space in 2011, got a lot of attention for its uncontrolled fall back through the atmosphere. Trackers have been keeping a close eye on the station’s descent for weeks, with the European Space Agency issuing updates every day for about the past week.
The station was visited by crews of taikonauts — China’s astronauts — over the course of its life in orbit. The Tiangong-2 station, Tiangong-1’s replacement, launched to space in 2016.
Both of the Heavenly Palace station [sic] are thought to be precursors to a large station China is planning to launch sometime in the 2020s.
BS
It is an ex-space station. It has ceased to be.
Bereft of life,it rests in peace!
And your scientific qualifications for such a pronouncement are...?
Bereft of life it rests in PIECES.
It was pinin’ for the fjords, but couldn’t make it.
He stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
According to multiple agencies tracking the space station’s movements, 34-foot-long spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at 8:16 p.m. ET above the southern Pacific Ocean.
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With all the hysteria you’d think it was 34 miles long.
Years ago, I was at a food court and a 12 year old kid started choking. I ran up and was ready to Heimlich him when the obstruction came out. His Grandma was smacking his back.
I looked at him and talked to him for a while. He had a sore throat. I told his grandma to take him to the candy store at the mall and get him a couple suckers to sooth his throat.
She asked if I was a doctor and like an idiot I said “No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.” Fortunately she got the joke.
In reality I’m not a doctor but have had regular First Aid training and various lower level certifications.
I’ve funded NASA for decades.
That they have NO TECH to track ChiCom BS is BS.
She not no. 1 space station. Not orbit long time.
I’m a taxpayer too and have also funded them for decades.
My son works at NASA on a ESA project and graduates college as an aerospace engineer next month. He explained to me the other day that tracking the orbit is easy, but tracking the exact moment it will enter the earth atmosphere and drop down is difficult.
You have no understanding of American tracking abilities?
Google knows where you reside.
Tell me about STEM Physics.
Peeps are either smart or not.
To know the exact path of an object in orbit is easy-peasy, Newton could do it with pencil and paper.
To know the exact moment when a tumbling variable cross section object hitting and skipping across random pockets of updrafts and downdrafts of upper-upper atmosphere will slow enough to fall out of orbit is a bit more challenging.
No more challenging than forecasting if it will rain at high noon on my house on my birthday next year. In principle, it can be done, but the accuracy suffers...
No doubt that there is variability to consider.
As time passes, “certainty” increases.
“I’ve got a slug.”
She number ten.
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