China’s falling space station highlights the problem of space junk crashing to Earth
- Written by Brad E Tucker, Astrophysicist, Australian National University
China's Tiangong-1 space station is due to hit Earth, and Australia is in the crash landing zone.Cindy Zhi/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
Any day now, the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is expected to fall back to Earth – but it’s uncertain where it will crash land. We know that Australia is in the potential zone, and we have been hit...
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