According to sources from Beijing, Space authorities said China’s first experimental space lab is expected to fall back to Earth between March 31 and April 4 and should burn up in the atmosphere. Accordingly Tiangong-1 has officially stopped sending data and entered its final phase of life on March 16. Presently Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace, is orbiting at an average height of about 216.2 km, the announcement noted, but did not disclose any re-entry location.
Meanwhile a Chinese aerospace expert told state-run Global Times that it is impossible to name the exact re-entry location at this stage. He said the approximate re-entry location cannot be decided until the last two hours before it starts to fall based on international precedents. Earlier the lab completed its main missions following Shenzhou-10’s return in June 2013. Moreover the heavenly vehicle successfully docked with the Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and undertook a series of experiments.
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Furthermore during its extended flight, Tiangong-1 conducted experiments
in space technology, space-earth remote sensing and space environment
exploration. As per latest report China plans to finalize its space station to
rival Mir, the Russian space station currently in orbit by 2022
