On april 1 2018 china s tiangong 1 space laboratory fell out of the sky breaking apart and burning up in the skies over the southern pacific ocean at about 8 16 p m.
Satellite falling to earth april 2018.
According to the ucs database of the 453 objects launched in 2017 only 390 of them were still in space at the end of the april 2018.
New observations show that earth s gravity has finally caught up with the 1 070 lb.
The spacecraft is expected to crash uncontrolled sometime overnight on april 1 or 2.
An artist s concept of china s tiangong 1 space station prototype burning up in earth s atmosphere during its fiery fall back to earth overnight on april 1 2 2018.
A defunct chinese space station is expected to plunge to earth from its orbital perch in early april.
487 kilograms satellite which is expected to die a fiery death in our planet s atmosphere this weekend.
Satellite images from 2018.
An artist s illustration of china s tiangong 1 space station falling to earth as it burns up in the atmosphere.
The tiangong 1 station will mostly burn up as it plummets through earth s atmosphere.
April 2 2018 11 09 am cbs ap.