中國“天宮一號”殘片墜落到南太平洋

A defunct Chinese space lab met its expected end early Monday morning as its remaining fragments plunged into the South Pacific.

China's Manned Space Engineering Office said the Tiangong-1 spacecraft "mostly" burned up in the atmosphere.

Any pieces that failed to disintegrate during the fiery trip back to Earth fell harmlessly into the ocean.

It took about two hours for the craft burn up once it hit Earth's atmosphere.

There had been predictions parts of the space lab would land in the South Atlantic with some pieces posing a very small threat to people on the ground

Tiangong-1 was the size of a school bus and weighed eight and a half tons.

Tiangong-1 was the largest man-made object to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a decade.

It was launched in 2011 and served as an orbiting laboratory for manned Chinese space missions until officials determined its lifespan was complete. It was taken out of service in 2016.中國一個廢棄不用的太空空間站星期一早晨走完其壽命最後一程，其碎片墜落到南太平洋。

中國載人航天工程辦公室說，中國天宮一號的大部分在大氣層中燒燬。

在墜落過程中沒有燒燬的部分落到海面時沒有造成任何損失。

天宮一號墜落穿過大氣層的時間大約爲兩個小時。

早先的預測說，將會有一些小的未燒燬部件墜落到南大西洋，對地面的人構成非常小的威脅。

天宮一號的體積與一輛大巴車相似，重量爲8.5噸。

天宮一號是10年來墜落到地球大氣層的最大人造物。

天宮一號於2011年發射，作爲中國太空造人飛行使用的空間站。空間站壽命被宣佈終結後，中國2016年廢棄了這個空間站。