Space station to crash land today

CHINA’S space station was predicted to fall back to Earth today, although experts did not know where it would land.

Tiangong-1, which translates as Heavenly Palace 1, launched in 2011 and weighs more than eight tonnes and is 34ft long.

Much of it is expected to burn up on re-entry, but debris will plummet to Earth over America, southern Europe, China, Africa or Australia, with Britain out of range. The chances of someone being hit are less than one in a trillion.

South Korea’s National Space Situational Awareness Organisation predicted the station would re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere between 9.12pm last night and 5.12am today.