Chinese Satellite Reentry Tracking

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Chinese satellite reentry tracking.

Sometime in the next few hours the body of a spent chinese rocket will become the largest piece of space junk in decades to fall uncontrolled back towards earth. China s mysterious reusable experimental spacecraft has safely landed after two days in space according to state media and may have deployed a satellite while in orbit. In this page you can track in real time all the satellites orbiting the earth with both 2d and 3d interactive representations predict their passes view their trajectory among stars on an interactive sky chart predict satellite flares and transits across the sun and the moon find out the best location to see these events on a detailed google map. Secretive chinese launch sends two remote sensing satellites into orbit china added to its earth observation capabilities with the clandestine launch of two satellites from taiyuan late saturday.

China s space program remains highly secretive and some experts have complained that a lack of information about tiangong 1 s design made it harder to predict what might happen upon its re entry. An artist s illustration of china s tiangong 1 space station falling to earth as it burns up in the atmosphere. Once chosen after a few seconds the program will begin the track the satellite. Space force s 18th space control squadron is tracking the chinese long march 5b rocket body.

As the re entry time approaches the range of re entry times will narrow. No details of the nature of the object have so far been released by china or us space tracking. Chinese crew capsules have previously released banxing small companion satellites for monitoring. To track a satellite it is necessary to choose one.

That is made by clicking directly on the satellite available on the great visibility column or after clicking on some of the categories.