Most of the station will burn up on re-entry and thhat could happen anywhere near the equator in an area that covers a third of the globe, which includes Florida.
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The space station is slowing coming close to the earth.
But no one knows for sure where it will come down.
The crash window has been narrowed down to March 30 and April 3, with the most likely date being April 1.
Michigan’s emergency operations center is being activated Thursday in preparation for this weekend’s expected crash landing of a Chinese space station. Until then, for those in the danger zone, it would be a good idea to stay alert to breaking news. “There’s still a fair amount of uncertainty”.
Thanks to online trackers you can now follow doomed Chinese satellite Tiangong-1 as it continues on its collision course with Earth. It was a major step towards China’s goal of having a permanent space station by 2022.
There will be a webcast of the re-entry of Tiangong-1 on Wednesday (March 28), and it is set to begin at 8:00 a.m. EDT.
Tiangong-1, China’s first space station, was launched in 2011 and has been in decreasing orbit ever since.
Bits of junk like Tiangong-1 do fall to Earth on a pretty regular basis.
Donald McDonald lives in Newtown and said he saw the space station with his naked eye. The station was replaced with the Tiangong-2 station in 2016. Its uncontrolled tumble to Earth imparts a few similitudes to the finish of the Skylab space station in 1979. It will be impossible to narrow down the location until a couple of hours prior to reentry.
Don’t worry. According to space debris experts, the chances that you personally will be hit by of a chunk of space metal are essentially zero – less than one in a trillion. Williams was struck on the shoulder by a small piece of a rocket’s fuel tank in 1997 while out for a walk. But, on the off chance you see a streaking fireball in the sky, now you know, that ain’t no Easter Bunny.
Despite this, there are possibilities that some pieces could survive and fall to the Earth’s surface, although it has not been possible to determine exactly where they would fall.
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The European Space Agency scientists predict the station will re-enter the atmosphere between Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.
