Masi caught sight of the Heavenly Palace with a camera in Italy earlier this month. [In Photos: A Look at China's Space Station That's Crashing to Earth] But on March 21, 2016, that office announced that it was no longer communicating with the space station.
China's Tiangong-1 space station will soon fall to Earth. The rocket body was more massive than the Chinese Tiangong-1 space station that plummeted back to Earth (presumably landing somewhere in the ocean) in 2018. Tiangong-1 was at about half the the altitude of the International Space Station at the time of the image. China's first space station launched in 2011 and was supposed to wind up in the Pacific Ocean. China’s first space station is expected to come crashing down to Earth within weeks, but scientists have not been able to predict where the 8.5-tonne module will hit.