Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Credit: The Aerospace Corporation/CORDS

The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) is making available a reentry dashboard specific to the upcoming fall of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab.

Credit: The Aerospace Corporation/CORDS

Tiangong-1 is now currently predicted to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere around April 1^st, plus or minus 2 Days. This prediction was performed by The Aerospace Corporation/CORDS on March 26.

To use the dashboard, go to:

http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/tiangong-1-reentry/

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Credit: Fraunhofer FHR

Radar love

Meanwhile, radar specialists at the Fraunhofer FHR in Wachtberg near Bonn, Germany have been monitoring China’s soon-to-reenter Tiangong-1 space lab for a number of weeks with their TIRA (Tracking and Imaging Radar) system. It’s one of the most powerful space observation radars in the world. They are supporting the German Space Situational Awareness Center (WRLageZ) and the European Space Agency with their re-entry forecasts.

Just released radar imagery indicates the Tiangong-1’s rotation speed has increased.

Go to this video view at:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Fraunhofer_FHRe/status/978616595609157635/video/1