April 2, 2018
Watch the skies — China’s ‘Heavenly Palace’ space station will crash tonight
Launched in 2011 in an effort to compete with the U.S. and Russia, the spacecraft was decommissioned in 2016, and China notified the United Nations that it would likely break apart and fall to Earth sometime in 2017 or 2018.
Tiangong-1 was replaced by Tiangong-2. The new station will house two Chinese astronauts for up to a month, with further tests on life support systems and “scientific research.”
But even Tiagong-2 won’t stay in orbit very long. That station, too, will fall to Earth in an uncontrolled manner, likely soon before the final version of the station launches sometime in the 2020s.
https:// www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/china-space-station-tiangong-1/