Tiangong-1

[tingting44]

Is any one hoping to catch a peek of the chinese sapce station falling to earth these coming couple days? ive only read bits and pieces in the news paper which is not the best source of info lol, so i thought id come here to the pro's lol

[vlaiv]

This might help:

http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2018/03/26/tiangong-1-reentry-updates/

[Victor Boesen]

Because of its orbit, we sadly won't be able to have a souvenir from it... the most northern part of its orbit is in Southern Europe if I remember it correctly. Either way it is interesting to follow its decent.

[Mognet]

34 minutes ago, Victor Boesen said:

Because of its orbit, we sadly won't be able to have a souvenir from it... the most northern part of its orbit is in Southern Europe if I remember it correctly. Either way it is interesting to follow its decent.

From a chart given in one of the comments, the closest part of the orbit takes it over northern Spain. I doubt we'd even get to see much, if any, of the re-entry if it happened in that part of the orbit. I'm sure it would be a spectacular sight if we could though!

[wxsatuser]

The inclination is 42.7 degrees, will never come over us.

[Buzzard75]

I live on the east coast of the US at about 35deg. It should make a handful of passes over my area so I'll be watching for it. The majority of the passes are going to be during the daytime with only one or two in the middle of the night or pre-dawn hours. I wonder how visible it will be during the daytime.

[Pete Presland]

I saw Tiangong 2 a couple of years ago, I thought Tiangong 1 had a similar orbit, but that was at its proper altitude. I can't imagine there is any chance at rentry altitude.

Should be interesting nonetheless to see it online.

[tingting44]

wow nice one on all the info, will be interesting none the less, gutted i wont be able to see it tho