{"id":144689,"date":"2018-04-02T05:48:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T05:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/?p=143747"},"modified":"2018-04-02T05:48:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T05:48:32","slug":"chinas-space-station-crashed-into-the-southern-pacific-ocean-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/04\/chinas-space-station-crashed-into-the-southern-pacific-ocean-2.html","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s space station crashed into the Southern Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerospace.org\/cords\/reentry-predictions\/tiangong-1-reentry\/\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiangong-1 was predicted to reenter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere on April 2nd, 2018 00:30 UTC \u00b1 1.7 hours. <\/a>The reentry has been confirmed as 2018\/04\/02 00:16 UTC. Reentry occurred in the Pacific Ocean.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/chinese-space-station-tiangong-1-crashes-earth-ncna861756\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whatever remained of the craft fell in the South Pacific, between California and Hawaii \u2014 &#8220;out in the middle of nowhere, which is exactly where we<\/a> hoped it would land,&#8221; said Roger Thompson, a senior engineering specialist with Aerospace Corp. of El Segundo, California, which works closely with NASA and has been tracking the space station since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiangong-1 was predicted to reenter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere on April 2nd, 2018 00:30 UTC \u00b1 1.7 hours. The reentry has been confirmed as 2018\/04\/02 00:16 UTC. Reentry occurred in the Pacific Ocean. Whatever remained of the craft fell in the South Pacific, between California and Hawaii \u2014 &#8220;out in the middle of nowhere, which is &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"China&#039;s space station crashed into the Southern Pacific Ocean\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/04\/chinas-space-station-crashed-into-the-southern-pacific-ocean-2.html#more-144689\" aria-label=\"More on China&#039;s space station crashed into the Southern Pacific Ocean\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":143748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1304,1307,1308],"tags":[27,320,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}