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• China's out-of-control space station will soon fall to a fiery doom — and no one is sure where its pieces will crash The 40-foot long Tiangong-1 or "Heavenly Palace," is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere between Sunday night and Monday morning US eastern time, according to the latest updates from the European Space Agency and the China Manned Space Engineering Office. As a reminder, several weeks ago Aerospace.org predicted that while the list of possible crash sites includes locations in Northern China, South America, Southern Africa, Northern Spain and the United States, lower Michigan in particular is among the regions with the highest probability of a direct hit. “2) We may not know that it's come down until an hour or so after it actually has done.” The chances of any one person being hit by debris are considered less than one in a trillion by the Aerospace Corporation. The space station, also known as "Heavenly Palace 1”, was launched in 2011 to carry out docking and orbit experiments as part of China's ambitious space programme, which aims to place a permanent station in orbit by 2023. China has lost communication with the spacecraft and is unable to control its descent, but has said it's unlikely that any large pieces will reach the ground.
Updated analysis by the European Space Agency and Aerospace Corporation suggests that the derelict Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will crash on tomorrow evening or the day thereafter in the morning. Although the prediction remains highly uncertain, the station may impact around Africa.