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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079880

• ChuckMcM 9y ago
  Then it was only suspected, now it is headed in. One good solar flare to poof up the atmosphere and down it will come. I guess the Chinese figured you always burn up your first space station. (Skylab, Mir)
  • extide 9y ago
    FWIW, Mir was definitely not Russia's first station, and not even the first one to re-enter uncontrolled.
    • mtve 9y ago
      "The deorbit of Mir was the controlled atmospheric re-entry"[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit_of_Mir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit_of_Mir
  • throwanem 9y ago
    "Build one to throw away. You will, anyway."