BEIJING – Chinese space laboratory Tiangong-1 is about to crash down toEarth.

China’s first space station will come into collision with our planet withinweeks. However, the scientists are struggling for now to predict where the8.5-tonne module will hit Earth.

According to the estimates of the US-funded Aerospace Corporation, theChinese space station will re-enter the atmosphere during the first week ofApril.

According to the European Space Agency, the module will come down to crashto Earth between March 24 and April 19, the Guardianlink>reportsaid.

A soldier rides a bicycle in front of the Long March II-F rocket loadedwith China’s unmanned space module Tiangong-1 before its planned launchfrom the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu province September 29, 2011.

In 2016, China admitted that it had lost control of Tiangong-1 and would beunable to perform a controlled re-entry in the atmosphere.

Aerospace, a research organisation that advises government and privateenterprise on space flight, in a statement said that there was a chance thedebris could hit earth*”* from the module will survive re-entry and hitEarth.

If this should happen, any surviving debris would fall within a region thatis a few hundred kilometres in size.

Aerospace warned that the Chinese space station might be carrying a highlytoxic and corrosive fuel called hydrazine on board.

The statement also mentioned that the module is expected to re-entersomewhere between 43 degrees north and 43 degreessouth latitudes.

The chances of re-entry were slightly higher in northern China, the MiddleEast, central Italy, northern Spain and the northern states of the US, NewZealand, Tasmania, parts of South America and southern Africa.