Second Chinese space station ‘drops towards Earth’
Rob Waugh,Yahoo News UK Tue, Jun 26 6:53 AM EDTArtists impression of Chinese space lab (Getty)
A second Chinese space station has dipped alarmingly towards our planet, prompting experts to wonder if it’s reaching the end of its life.
Unlike Tiangong-1, which crashed to Earth earlier this year, it’s not believed that the Tiangong-2 space station is out of control – but it may be about to be decommissioned.
China’s government has said nothing.
From June 13 to 23, the space station went from 242 miles up down to 183 miles above Earth, says Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Jonathan McDowell.