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Re:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth wit... by yitosda on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:15PM (#15480085)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079880
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Re:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth wit... by ChuckMcM on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:28PM (#15480116)
Then it was only suspected, now it is headed in. One good solar flare to poof up the atmosphere and down it will come.

I guess the Chinese figured you always burn up your first space station. (Skylab, Mir)

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Re:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth wit... by extide on Monday October 16, 2017 @12:00AM (#15480741)
FWIW, Mir was definitely not Russia's first station, and not even the first one to re-enter uncontrolled.
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Re:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth wit... by mtve on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:29AM (#15481062)
"The deorbit of Mir was the controlled atmospheric re-entry"[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit_of_Mir

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Re:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth wit... by throwanem on Monday October 16, 2017 @07:57AM (#15482565)
"Build one to throw away. You will, anyway."
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