China, what you doing babe?
Why aren’t you properly disposing of your space junk?
Hello and welcome back to IO, I am back again….
I am Rebecca Felgate, not Charlotte…she has a had a busy week on set so needs a lil
rest!
Today I am bringing you some news of a possible space crash.
High drama!
Before we get into the full story, I want to ask you guys if you have ever seen the
International Space Station go by at night, or ever seen a shooting star!
I’ve seen both…pretty cool!
Also, while you are down there leaving a comment, why don’t you hit that thumbs up button!
Okay, so remember that Chinese satellite that was set to hit earth a few months ago?
It made loads of headlines and people thought it was about to smash into their city?
Well, that is happening again with another space station in orbit.
Tiangong 2 has been lowered from 235 miles up in the sky to just 55 miles as china prepares
to bring it back down to earth.
Tiangong 1 luckily fell into the Pacific Ocean, causing no damage to civilians.
None the less, Chinese Space professionals were under fire for the uncontrolled descent,
that could have easily hit land.
China will not want Tiangong 2 to go rogue like its predecessor.
The latest space station to come crashing back to earth was launched in September 2016
and was manned between October to November of the same year.
The Chinese have been using it to prepare for the launch of their much bigger 2020 space
station.
While it seems like de-orbiting is in progress, the China Manned Space Engineering Office
haven’t made any official announcements yet.
With any luck, they have better control over this old station than the last and can control
the landing, however if it does go rogue, once again, people on earth might panic.
The station is estimated to weigh around 8 thousand 500 kilos – soooo nearing 19 thousand
pounds.
That is a weighty piece of space junk to come crashing down on your head!
That being said, a lot of it is likely to burn up in the atmosphere upon re-entry andddd
the orbit is by and large over the ocean, so it should be fine.
Should be.
Fingers crossed.
Hears hoping.
Without confirmation from China as to when this is going to happen, we don’t have too
much more information…
just…watch your heads!
So…what do you guys think to this news?
Are you worried about it raining satellites?
Or do you think we will be fine?
Also don’t forget to let me know if you’ve seen any satellites or shooting stars.
It is always pretty exciting.
Before I go, I am just going to respond to a few comments left on my video on Thursday.
I was wearing a sunny yellow and talking all about the new Instagram TV, which I am pretty
up for!
Sophie Soares wrote: Instagram for Life.
I agree!
Where else would I share snaps of my delicious snacks and sassy outfits.
Alessio Yu Wrote: Can Io please please please start posting some videos on IGTV!!?
Youtube’s getting boring and ads are getting longer!!
I need potatoes on several different platforms and not just on youtube!!!?
Like, I don’t see why not.
We make our living from Youtube Ad Revenue, which is important for us to keep going, but
if IGTV is eventually going to monetize the platform, it could be a cool new way to run
our business!
Finally, Quagmire wrote: Rebecca and Charlotte are the only reasons I watch these videos.
They add humor so they are not as boring.
And both are just so darn cute THANKS QUAGMIRE.
Cutie matootie.
So…that is that for this video…..Two of my interests really….
Space and Instagram….
Like, share….Saturday!