(China's go at a permanent space presence) may come down earlier than originally thought.
As it stands now, Tiangong 1, China’s first space laboratory, will come to a fiery end in late 2017. however during a Sept. 14 news conference Chinese officials came close to admitting that they had lost control of the station, and as such have no control as to when the lab will enter Earth's Atmosphere or even impact the surface. (though in truth have not formally admitted the failure and in the opinion of satellite tracker Thomas Dorman, China will wait until the last minute to let the world know it has a problem with their space station.
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