Chinese Space Station News

bob haller wrote:

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 6:31:14 AM UTC-4, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 2:27:20 PM UTC-4, jacob navia wrote:
Le 20/09/2016 à 05:02, a écrit :
China's Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years
now, but recently it was decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to
the surface. In a press conference last week, China announced that the space
station would be falling back to earth at some point in late 2017."

Problem is:

The chinese controllers have lost the command over the ship that will
fall incontrably to earth somewhere.

I find it preposterous that space ships fall somewhere, maybe over
someone's head... The chinese (americans russians whatever) should
ensure that the ship is disposed in a controlled manner, over an empty
area of the planet!

this will be a problem untill the situation fixes itself........

a major part comes down in a city and kills a bunch of people.

Very unlikely given the percentage of the surface of the earth covered
by "city".

they are playing the odds, and have been successful so far, but it will eventually happen

And the odds are clearly in their favor.


very unlikely means its still possible.. rocket owners have been playing the odds forever. its assured one day they will come back to bite them


It's also 'still possible' that we could all fart at the same time and
blow Earth's atmosphere away, but it's pretty unlikely.


the most likely event. a failure on iss leads to loss of control. station is big heavy complex and in low orbit.....


No. I know this is one of your pet "the sky is falling" scenarios,
but it's pretty much ****e.


when station begins to enter modules will break off, scattering debris, many of which will survive rentry, all over our world.


Wrong. Pieces don't just magically start flying hither and yon
because you're an idiot.


Causing a world wide panic..


Only among people who are prone to react to Chicken Little.


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