Rogue Chinese space station is on a collision course with Earth

Oct17

by Sindy Cator on October 17, 2017 at 12:27 am

Sometime in the next couple of months, the Tiangong-1 space station is going to fall to Earth — and we’ll have no idea where it’s going to land until a couple of hours before it does. The space laboratory was being controlled by the Chinese government until an amateur space tracker noticed in June 2016 that it had apparently gone rogue. A few months later, Chinese officials told the UN they no longer had control and they had no idea when it was going to land. As Jonathan McDowell, Harvard astrophysicist, told The Guardian, “Not knowing when it’s going to…