The Chinese spaceman station Tiangong-1 eventually passed through Earth's atmosphere and landed somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean.
The huge spaceship crashed at 3:16 pm on April 1, according to the US Strategic Administration (Strategic Command), which was able to confirm the exact point of re-entry along with services from eight other countries.
Η drop of the space station halted a seven-year orbit of the vehicle that ultimately did not crash into a populated area.
NW of Tahiti - it managed to miss the 'spacecraft graveyard' which is further south! pic.twitter.com/Sj4e42O7Dc
- Jonathan McDowell (@ planet4589) April 2, 2018
The complete disappointment of the danger experts who at times reported that the station could hit Greece…
In fact, it was very difficult to determine exactly where Tiangong-1 fell.
On Sunday afternoon, the Trackers were able to limit the time of reentrytreatmentof the spacecraft in the Earth's atmosphere approximately and with a time margin of between three, four hours.
But the location of the space that would fall was still variable.
Why; The space station revolved around the Earth at 27.359 kilometers per hour. Thus, if an estimate were wrong by one hour, the station would fall 27.359 kilometers away from the designated point.
The crash of the Tiangong-1 stopped many years of worrying about where the spacecraft would land. The space station was a very heavy vehicle and many experts predicted that the Earth's atmosphere would not be able to break it into small pieces.
However, the chances of it not hitting a residential area were very high, as the Earth is mostly covered by oceans.
In fact, the risk of someone dying from space debris is one in 1 trillion, according to Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit that conducts research and guidance on space missions. (PDF)
