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Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates

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"#JFSCC confirmed #Tiangong1 reentered the atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean at ~5:16 p.m. (PST) April 1."

https://twitter.com/18SPCS/status/980614448745406465

I also recommend to follow Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) for more informal updates on space activity.

Even more recent updates from China Manned Space Agency: http://en.cmse.gov.cn/col/col1763/index.html

What other live data is there for this?

(Besides the PNG which I am now downloading every 30 seconds using this in an empty dir:)

  while true; do wget http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png -O $(date +%s).png; sleep 30; done

Seems to update every 5 minutes at the moment; I'm overengineering incase they increase it at some point.

not just wget -N in a polite loop?

I've been vanquished!

A reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/88bsyf/tiangong1_ree...

The re-entry dashboard has the live details, but its preventing direct links, so I've linked to the main page.

Seems to me that the dashboard is basically a png that is refreshed ever so often.

Exactly

get this, at 22:52:28 UTC, the time to reentry is 1.6h +- 1.7h

I think that's because it's currently not tracked. I.e., the station could have reentered a couple of minuted ago, and they wouldn't know.

correct, also extrapolating on bunch of equation systems is bound to lead to this sort math aberration

It was, confusingly, a computed dashboard -- not an actual tracker.

I'm able to load http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png just fine, including via wget.

After a multi-hour fight with imgur, which has some of the most BROKEN website design I have experienced (so. many. bugs.), I uploaded the tiny album of snapshots I took.

https://imgur.com/a/CWkeP

Looks like it's done.

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