An out-of-control space
station is headed down
to Earth in the coming
weeks –
but scientists
don't know
where or
exactly when
it will arrive.
The space station is set to fall down
to Earth sometime between 29
March and 9 April, according to
scientists
the
European
Space
Agency who warn that projection is
"highly
variable".
But
it's
not
possible to know where or when
The Tiangong-1 satellite – a space station operated by
the Chinese space agency – has been tumbling down
to Earth for months. Experts warn that its engineers
appear to have lost control of it, but Chinese
authorities have said very little about what is
happening to the object.
exactly it will fall.
They said they expect the object to
fall
43-degrees
north
and
43-
degrees south. In western Europe,
that
would
put
it
somewhere
around Spain, France or Portugal –
Outside space experts have said that the space station but the object could fall anywhere
is clearly falling down to Earth and that it appears around the globe, meaning that it
engineers won't be able to manage that process. could also drop into the Pacific or
Atlantic Oceans.
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