Tiangong 1 Gives China New Re-entry Experience

BEIJING—Chinese space engineers observed the country’s largest orbital re-entry so far on April 2 when the bus-sized Tiangong 1 space laboratory fell into the South Pacific Ocean. While popular attention globally was focused on the tiny risk of bits of the 8.5-metric-ton (19,000-lb.) artificial...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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