China space lab mostly burns up on re-entry in south Pacific
BEIJING (AP) — China's defunct Tiangong 1 space station mostly burned up on re-entry Monday into the atmosphere over the central South Pacific, Chinese space authorities said.
The experimental space laboratory re-entered around 8:15 a.m., the China Manned Space Engineering Office said.
Scientists monitoring the craft's disintegrating orbit had forecast the craft would mostly burn up and would pose only the slightest of risks to people. Analysis from the Beijing Aerospace Control Center sho
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