China's Defunct Space Station Meets A Fiery End Over The South Pacific

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Radar image of Tiangong-1 as it comes towards Earth (Photo Credit: Fraunhofer Institure)

Reports of an out-of-control space station hurtling towards Earth may sound like a bad April Fools’ prank. However, this was no joke. At 5:16 pm PDT on April 1 (April 2, 00:16 GMT), China’s school bus-sized Tiangong-1 met a fiery end over the South Pacific, ending weeks of uncertainty as to when and where it would land.

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