Graveyards of spacecraft fell to Earth

China's Thien Cung 1 Station will not fall to the graveyard to bury the remains of most of the spacecraft and satellites that once orbit the Earth.

Adventurers and adventurers often look for new places to reach, conquer the highest peaks, go to the most remote polar regions, overcome vast oceans and deserts. Some of them are called extremely inaccessible and particularly inaccessible two poles , according to the BBC.

The extreme inaccessibility on the continent is the location on Earth farthest from the ocean. There is some controversy about the exact location but many people assume that it is near Dzungarian Gate, the mountain stretching between China and Central Asia.

The other is a place away from the most mainland in the ocean , located in the South Pacific Ocean 2,700km south of the Pitcairn Islands, in waters between Australia, New Zealand and South America.

Extreme inaccessibility on the ocean looks just as attractive to adventurers as it is, but also attracts the attention of satellite controllers because that's where most of the satellites in orbit around the Earth will falling.

China's Thien Cung 1 Station on Earth orbit.(Photo: BBC).

Small satellites will burn, while larger debris can land on the surface of the Earth. To avoid crashing into inhabited areas, they are directed to the extreme inaccessibility on the ocean. The location spreads over an area of ​​about 1,500 square kilometers in this ocean floor is the graveyard of the satellites. In the latest calculation, there are more than 260 satellites falling here, mainly of Russia.

Correct the Mir space station is here. The station was launched in 1986, visiting many crews and international visitors. With a total weight of 120 tons, the Mir station could not burn completely in the atmosphere, so it was launched in the graveyard area in 2001. Some fishermen even saw a large fragment of fire flying over and over. sky.

Several times a year, the cargo compartment for the International Space Station (ISS) caught fire in this area, scorching the station's waste. No one is in danger because of flying back to the controlled Earth atmosphere. The area without fishing activities due to ocean currents does not pass through here and does not bring nutrients, so marine life is very rare.

A future 'guest' will rest in this ruins where the ISS station is. Under the current plan, the station will be deactivated in the next decade and should be taken down to the ocean inaccessibility carefully. Since the ISS station weighs 450 tons, four times the Mir space station, this will be an impressive flight.

However, it is sometimes impossible to control a satellite or space station to the South Pacific if ground controllers lose contact with the vehicle. The same thing happened to the Salyut 7 36 ton space station in 1991 that landed in South America or the Skylab station crashed into Australia in 1979. No residents on the ground were injured and in fact, there were no cases. the spaceship debris hit.

Between January and April 2018, China's Thien Cung 1 space station will fall back to Earth. This is China's first space station launched in 2011. Liu Yang, China's first female astronaut, flew to the Thien Cung station a year later. Currently, the orbit of the Thien Cung 1 station is descending before falling through the Earth's atmosphere. But Chinese engineers lost control of the station and could not start the propulsion to accurately dump the South Pacific. Instead, Thien Cung 1 station will fall between 42.8 degrees north latitude and south latitude, between northern Spain and southern Australia.