BEIJING – *The Chinese out-of-control space station has finally crashed toEarth, though harmlessly, somewhere over the Southern Pacific Ocean.*
As per US Strategic Command, the 34ft long spacecraft, Tiangong-1, crashedat around 08:16pm EST (05:15am PKT) on April 1. The descent of thespacecraft finally marked an end of the space station’s seven years inorbit and successfully crashed in an area with no population thus, harmingno one.
Though much of the debris burned up on its way to Earth, some of it stillmanaged to make its way down over the Pacific Ocean, though still not clearhow much of it. Till the last day the exact location of its crash wasn’tknown but, it was clear that it won’t do much harm.
As per *Chicago Tribune, *Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at AustralianNational University expressed about the crash, “It could have been betterobviously, if it wasn’t tumbling, but it landed in the Southern PacificOcean and that’s kind of where you hope it would land.”
According to *BBC, *European Space Agency claimed beforehand that the spacestation is likely to break up over water, which actually covers most ofEarth’s surface. It also said that the chances of anyone getting hit by thedebris were ‘10 million times smaller than the yearly chance of being hitby lightning’.
Tiangong-1, better known as ‘Heavenly Palace’ was launched by the Chinesespace agency in 2011 and in 2016, the Chinese government declared that theyhave lost control over it. The space station that had kept people and spaceagencies worried regarding its crash landing is now officially no more