> Last April, a Chinese space station, the Tiangong-1, fell to earth after officials lost communication with it. As discussed previously on HN, this was not an

> Last April, a Chinese space station, the Tiangong-1, fell to earth after officials lost communication with it. As discussed previously on HN, this was not an accident, but a planned deorbiting of an obsolete testbed. The loss of comms was not intended, but it happened three years after the last mission there and two years after the designed lifespan of the station. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15479891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15479891 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1