“Tiangong 1” space lab to end its service in the next few months

Almaty. October 17. Silkroadnews - The Tiangong-1 space laboratory will end its service in the next few months, the Washington Post reported.
“Tiangong 1, which translates to “Heavenly Palace,” is China’s first space laboratory, launched in September 2011, serving as a prototype for a permanent space station that it aims to eventually build and launch. But six years after it first went into orbit, the laboratory is soon expected to meet a fiery and uncontrolled end, hurtling down to Earth,” the report said.
In May 2017, China informed the United Nations that the laboratory would reenter the Earth’s atmosphere between October and April 2018. With this representatives of China assured, the odds that the crashing craft will damage aviation or ground activities is “very low,” adding that China would closely monitor Tiangong 1’s descent.
Tiangong 1 ended its service in March of this year after it had “comprehensively fulfilled its historical mission.”
The laboratory served as a base for space experiments for four and a half years, two years longer than it was originally planned. Since 2012, it hosted two crews of three people each, including the first China’s female astronaut Liu Yang.
As reported, the laboratory has been descending gradually since its service ended, more recently, it has started to fall faster, reaching the denser layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
In September 2016 China launched the second experimental station Tiangong 2. China is striving to create a permanently manned space station in orbit by 2020.