Amateur footage posted on chinese social media site weibo.
Chinese satellite falling to earth.
Watching the stars tonight we could hit with space junk any moment.
Imagine a chinese space station hurtling toward earth.
The rocket s empty core stage weighing nearly 18 tons is.
Most of the craft will burn up in the atmosphere but a.
Experts say it s extremely unlikely that large pieces of the school bus sized tiangong 1 will survive.
China s own space program raised major concerns after it used a missile to destroy an out of service.
Normally a decommissioned satellite or space station would be.
An out of control chinese space station is expected to plunge to earth in about a week.
Hong kong cnn china s second space lab will return to earth in a controlled demolition friday according to the country s space agency.
Debris from the 6 ton satellite ended up falling into the pacific ocean causing no damage.
Reentry window from now into the middle of next week.
The spacecraft is expected to crash uncontrolled sometime overnight on april 1 or 2.
An artist s illustration of china s tiangong 1 space station falling to earth as it burns up in the atmosphere.
In a press conference last week china announced that the space station would be falling back to earth at some point in late 2017.
Chip reid takes a look.
China abandoned a space station in 2016 and it s been falling to earth since.