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...
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