Tiangong's Splashdown April 2, 2018 UT

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Tiangong's Splashdown April 2, 2018 UT

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The Chinese space station is approaching its entry point.

EDIT 4:29 PM PDT -- Right now the European Space Agency is predicting that it will land in the southern Pacific Ocean about several thousand miles west of South America. The map they displayed was so dark that I could not make out the continent until just now. Currently at 4:37 PM PDT, Tiangong is approaching India and is traveling East.

EDIT 4:29 PM PDT --The estimated time of entry is approximately 0030 UT plus or minus l hour 42 minutes. We are in the window of re-entry right now.

Edited to remove link as it was causing problems with my computer.

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Tiangong is now over India.

It is dropping rapidly at 120 km.

The space agency expects the splash down in one hour and 20 minutes.

That will be about 0100 UT or 6 PM PDT plus or minus a few minutes.

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I tried clicking on the link and got this message:

Error 1011 Ray ID: 404f060197e779c7 • 2018-04-02 00:01:52 UTC
Access denied
What happened?
The owner of this website (http://www.aerospace.org) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png).

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Luke wrote:

I tried clicking on the link and got this message:

Error 1011 Ray ID: 404f060197e779c7 • 2018-04-02 00:01:52 UTC
Access denied
What happened?
The owner of this website (http://www.aerospace.org) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png).

That is weird. I did not hotlink, nor did I get an error message.
Perhaps their board was overwhelmed.

Nevertheless, something is weird as all the parameters on aerospace dashboard have disappeared. It is as if the Tiangong has crash landed, but no one says where it is or what time it crashed.

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My husband just reported that CBS radio announced the crash of Tiangong into the South Pacific.

That site which I linked above has a problem. I do not know what has happened, but it seemed to lock up my computer when I tried to copy the address as a reference.

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Re: Tiangong's Splashdown April 2, 2018 UT

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More information.

Splashdown at 0016 UT on April 2, 2018

Latitude is -13.6 degrees
Longitude is 195 degrees

South Pacific Ocean.

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