Today's decay plot for the Tianhe objects. The core stage apogee continues to come down slowly. No new data today on Tianhe itself, which could indicate it made an orbit raising burn and tracking has lost it for now.pic.twitter.com/Gr1jz852jf
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Before the CZ-5B started flying there were NO "by design" uncontrolled reentries above 10 tonnes since 1990. DOS-6 (Salyut-7), STS-107 and Fobos-Grunt were all failures.
Was Mir not uncontrolled?
Correct: Mir was controlled. It had a Progress ship pushing down into the atmo at a specific location.
How long until we know where and when it will come dow
About a couple of hours after it actually does
Including STS-107 on that chart is kind of insulting to be honest. And it wasn't an uncontrolled re-entry. It was intentional, the impact point was the only uncontrolled part.
Was STS-107 really uncontrolled? It didn’t reenter due to a faulty stage or orbital decay but rather was deorbited just like an old space station or upper stage for example
It's a bit of a special case. It was a controlled deorbit but the debris landed far from the intended intact landing point, so in practice it had some of the characteristics of an uncontrolled reentry.
What is that F-G that reentered in like 2008?
The Russian Fobos-Grunt sample-return mission to Mars' moon Phobos. It also carried a Chinese orbiter. It failed after launch and before its departure burn for Mars, leaving it stranded in low Earth orbit. It reentered (uncontrolled) a couple of months later.
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