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Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by okket on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:40AM (#16732383)
"#JFSCC confirmed #Tiangong1 reentered the atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean at ~5:16 p.m. (PST) April 1."

https://twitter.com/18SPCS/status/980614448745406465

I also recommend to follow Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) for more informal updates on space activity.

Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by pksadiq on Sunday April 01, 2018 @09:20PM (#16731577)
Even more recent updates from China Manned Space Agency: http://en.cmse.gov.cn/col/col1763/index.html
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by exikyut on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:10PM (#16731311)
What other live data is there for this?

(Besides the PNG which I am now downloading every 30 seconds using this in an empty dir:)

  while true; do wget http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png -O $(date +%s).png; sleep 30; done
Seems to update every 5 minutes at the moment; I'm overengineering incase they increase it at some point.
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by anothergoogler on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:41PM (#16731427)
<snipped crappy script>
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by soneil on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:47PM (#16731445)
not just wget -N in a polite loop?
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by anothergoogler on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:50PM (#16731457)
I've been vanquished!
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by akavel on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:13PM (#16730817)
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by lunchbreak on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:07AM (#16727844)
The re-entry dashboard has the live details, but its preventing direct links, so I've linked to the main page.
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by digi_owl on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:14PM (#16730818)
Seems to me that the dashboard is basically a png that is refreshed ever so often.
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by lunchbreak on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:17PM (#16730834)
Exactly
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by exikyut on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:13PM (#16731320)
I'm able to load http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png just fine, including via wget.
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by sduclos on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:00PM (#16731026)
get this, at 22:52:28 UTC, the time to reentry is 1.6h +- 1.7h
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by davrosthedalek on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:07PM (#16731063)
I think that's because it's currently not tracked. I.e., the station could have reentered a couple of minuted ago, and they wouldn't know.
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by sduclos on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:22PM (#16731119)
correct, also extrapolating on bunch of equation systems is bound to lead to this sort math aberration
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by mkempe on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:10AM (#16732260)
It was, confusingly, a computed dashboard -- not an actual tracker.
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by exikyut on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:36AM (#16733151)
After a multi-hour fight with imgur, which has some of the most BROKEN website design I have experienced (so. many. bugs.), I uploaded the tiny album of snapshots I took.

https://imgur.com/a/CWkeP

Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates by rch on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:34PM (#16731402)
Looks like it's done.