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05/17/2018 / By David Williams

How much space debris makes its way back to Earth?

While space may be filled with a whole lot of nothing, it also has plenty of solid materials scattered all throughout it. For instance, right outside of Earth, you’ll find what can only be referred to as space junk – bits and pieces of spaceship and satellite parts that came from items that failed to […]

01/25/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Man-made meteor: New estimates put China’s doomed space station, with toxic chemicals on board, crash landing back to Earth in about 3 months — with many toxins surviving re-entry

In 2016, the Chinese Space Agency conceded that it had lost contact and control of the Tiagong-1, China’s first prototype space station. Officials hypothesized that reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere would occur sometime in 2017. Now, it has been estimated that the Tiagong-1 — which means “Heavenly Place — will finally crash into the earth […]

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