The European Space Agency has been monitoring China's Tiangong-1 space lab, and has issued a new re-entry forecast according to a report from Fox News. The 8.5-ton spacecraft is expected to fall into Earth's atmosphere between March 24th and April 19th, somewhere around Spain or France.
Seems a little odd to me that they can't predict when it will fall into the atmosphere with a little more accuracy than nearly a month window. The ESA even stated "At no time will a precise time/location prediction from ESA be possible."
The first Chinese orbital docking occurred between Tiangong-1 and an unpiloted Shenzhou spacecraft on Nov. 2, 2011. Two crewed missions later visited Tiangong-1: Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10, which launched in June 2012 and June 2013, respectively.
Seems a little odd to me that they can't predict when it will fall into the atmosphere with a little more accuracy than nearly a month window. The ESA even stated "At no time will a precise time/location prediction from ESA be possible."
The first Chinese orbital docking occurred between Tiangong-1 and an unpiloted Shenzhou spacecraft on Nov. 2, 2011. Two crewed missions later visited Tiangong-1: Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10, which launched in June 2012 and June 2013, respectively.