China’s “Tiangong-1” re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Monday

Beijing. April 2. Silkroadnews - China’s space station “Tiangong-1” re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Monday, the Kazakh Telegraph Agency reported citing the Russian service of the BBC.
“The latest projection from the Esa points to re-entry at 07:25 Beijing time (00:25 GMT) on 2 April, although the window is still "highly variable" - stretching from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning,” the report said on Monday.
It is noted that experts are tracking a module that is moving along a steadily declining trajectory. Nevertheless, the exact time of the final fall can only be established in a very short space before this happens, due to the uncertainties of the interaction of the module with the upper layers of the atmosphere.
Earlier Chinese officials confirmed they had lost control of the space station, and there is no way to control its falling. However, risk that any debris of “Tiangong-1” will fall in the populated areas is considered as very low, the report says.
“Given Tiangong-1 has a larger mass and is more robust, as it is pressurised, than many other space objects that return uncontrolled to Earth from space, it is the subject of a number of radar tracking campaigns,” the agency quoted chief engineer at the UK Space Agency Richard Crowther.
According to him, the most of the module is expected to burn during re-entry heating, with the greatest probability being that any surviving fragments will fall into the sea.
“Tiangong-1” (literally: “Heavenly Palace 1” or “Celestial Palace 1”) space lab was launched in 2011. It has completed six space rendezvous and docking missions with three visiting spacecraft.