Space Station To Hit Earth

Live video of earth from space as seen from the nasa iss live stream aboard the international space station.
Space station to hit earth. Scientists have since anticipated the space station returning to earth as a manmade meteorite but are unsure. The rocket body was more massive than the chinese tiangong 1 space station that plummeted back to earth presumably landing somewhere in the ocean in 2018. A defunct chinese space station is expected to plunge to earth from its orbital perch in early april. During april a small piece of orbiting junk hit the international space station iss where six astronauts including tim peake currently reside.
Thanks for watching space videos. Skylab was the first american space station and fell to earth in 1979 with debris falling into the indian ocean and onto parts of australia. China launched its long march 5b rocket with an unmanned prototype spacecraft on may 5. The small orbiting object impacted a window on the cupola observation module which was added to the iss in 2010 to allow for breathtaking views of earth and celestial objects.
But most of the iss will return to earth. Here s a primer on the space lab and its. The tiangong 1 station will mostly burn up as it plummets through earth s atmosphere. It s about a fifth the mass of skylab.
China s first prototype space station tiangong 1 will come crashing back to earth between march 30 and april 3 give or take a few days experts say. In 2003 debris from nasa s 100 ton space shuttle. Spacex delivered two astronauts to the international space station for nasa on sunday following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for elon musk s company. Cnn one of the largest pieces of uncontrolled space debris fell back down and landed on earth today.