Chinese space station coming home

[jmorgan]

As per title.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/chinese-sp...
http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2018/01/12/tian...
April the 1st possibly?

[jmorgan]

Well, this weekend, but where will it go bump in the night?

https://www.livescience.com/62122-why-china-space-...

We are too far north.

[Einion Yrth]

We aren't all in Britain, so I suspect some of us aren't.

[jmorgan]

I was being UK ist. Just in case though, not sure how far they deliver.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/jsp-evo2-mid-peak-slip-...

[Eric Mc]

No higher or lower than 43 degrees north or south of the equator.

[Topbuzz]

I’m in Ho Chi Minh City and they already talk about the amount of Chinese crap entering their country.
Hopefully it hits the sea if anything is left intact.

[funkyrobot]

Not too long now.

Wonder who will witness the Chinese fly tipping?

Scott Manley has an interesting YouTube video on it. Talks about reentry tracks of other stations that came home.

[jmorgan]

Heavens above has the track. Probably others

[jmorgan]

Sure I read 194 altitude last night, 174 now, or my memory is wrong.

Edit.
Not seen this web site before
http://www.satview.org/?sat_id=37820U

ESA site on prediction. Solar particles less influence than expected.
http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2018/03/26/tian...

https://www.universetoday.com/138892/heres-follow-...

Edited by jmorgan on Saturday 31st March 09:06

[DrDeAtH]

Hopefully it will land in the south China sea... On that new military island they are building...

[Beati Dogu]

Their own version of Truk lagoon.

[Eric Mc]

Various sites are following it's path live. I'm keeping an eye on it using Heavens Above .com

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http://www.heavens-above.com/GroundTrack.aspx

[jmorgan]

ESA have updated their estimate.
http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2018/03/26/tian...

"The team now are forecasting a window centred around 23:25 UTC on 1 April (01:25 CEST 2 April), and running from the afternoon of 1 April to the early morning on 2 April. This remains highly variable. "

Edit. Saw 170 or so km yesterday.

Edited by jmorgan on Sunday 1st April 09:06

[jmorgan]

Just after midnight in the South Pacific then.

[funkyrobot]

NW of Tahiti.

Wonder if anyone has any footage of the breakup. There is some crap on youtube but it seems fake.

[jmorgan]

They were not sure where it was going down, Pacific is rather large, what are the chances of someone catching the event?

[Eric Mc]

jmorgan said:

They were not sure where it was going down, Pacific is rather large, what are the chances of someone catching the event?

I'd say reasonably high. Mir came down over the Pacific Ocean in 2001 and that event was caught on camera - in an era before mobile phone footage. So, I reckon it might very well have been caught on camera. I'm keeping an eye on You Tube to see if anything turns up.

Mir Re-Entry


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h902KJb0cfE

[funkyrobot]

Eric Mc said:

jmorgan said:

They were not sure where it was going down, Pacific is rather large, what are the chances of someone catching the event?

I'd say reasonably high. Mir came down over the Pacific Ocean in 2001 and that event was caught on camera - in an era before mobile phone footage. So, I reckon it might very well have been caught on camera. I'm keeping an eye on You Tube to see if anything turns up.

Mir Re-Entry


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h902KJb0cfE

That vid was being used as the Tiangong 1 footage yesterday.

[jmorgan]

Found this interesting
https://twitter.com/planet4589

Some commentary on one vid touted that was from Transformers....

Interesting read anyway. Jonathan McDowell, Astronomer.


Should be a sticky for interesting links.