This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)
> A large, uncontrolled reentry is set for early 2018, as China's first prototype space station, Tiangong 1 is set to burn up in Earth's atmosphere during its fall from orbit.
> China's National Space Agency launched the school bus-sized, 8½-ton space station on September 29, 2011.
> China has charged forward with its own space station in part because it is a conspicuously absent player in the International Space Station program, as International Traffic in Arms Regulations currently prohibit a U.S. government agency such as NASA from sharing restricted technology with China.
> The Tiangong launches are just part of China's space efforts - the nation's space agency recently finished testing its new Tianzhou 1 automated cargo vehicle during rendezvous with Tiangong 2, it has also developed the Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket, which will deploy the Chang'e 5 lunar sample-return mission early next year.
> U.S. Air Force Space Command currently maintains space situational awareness using surveillance radar based out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and Cavalier Air Force Station, North Dakota.
> Heavens-Above has a link on their homepage dedicated to Tiangong 1 and Tiangong 2, and a series of good evening passes for the southeastern U.S. for Tiangong 1 are coming up, starting on November 21st. I'll be curating these on Twitter in the hours leading up to each pass.
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I'll be relaying information to and from my father. Also the engine burns hydrogen fuel which is generated by an onboard system using the waste heat of the engine. This is a cyclical process therefore you'll never need to add fuel to the engine, just water.
Honestly i spend such a lot of time needing to convert the units in the titles and it kinda tones down my enjoyment of this sub a bit.
Even a bot or the auto-mod to do the conversion would help immensely, too.
