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    We need a space thread. Or perhaps this should go in News of the Day. Anyway.

    The following png file (which may not load-in here) auto updates every few minutes (you'll need to hit manually F5 though), showing the latest tracking data on the Chinese space station that's due to make landfall in about 4½ hours.

    As well as how quickly it's going, it's interesting seeing how much the altitude changes every 10 minutes or so - I'm not really sure how, but it somehow went up a few km earlier. Not sure if incorrect data or somehow bouncing off atmosphere (4km seems like a heck of a bounce, mind..)

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    • Ah, I figured it wouldn't embed.
      Link again, just in case:
      http://www.aerospace…      detritus
    • I love the radar bubble view, bottom middle - points out (obviously!) how little coveragre there apparently is across swathes of ocean. Cameron was right... .detritus
    • ..er.. James Cameron, and Abyss.

      Not David Cameron, and Brexit.      detritus
    • http://www.aerospace…
      need to access aerospace.org before being allowed to see img      uan
    • 138km high and descending 2.8h to reentryuan
    • the altitude plot top right shows the jumps...has probably a wiggle(23,42) in the codeuan
    • it's in the upper layers of the Thermosphere...jumps maybe caused by the heat radiation up there?https://i.imgu...uan
    • https://i.imgur.com/…uan
    • great convoutopian
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