End of Orbit
The station has a service life of ten years. Chinese manned spacecraft use deorbital burns to slow their velocity, resulting in their re-entry to the earths atmosphere. Vehicles carrying a crew have a heat shield which prevents the vehicles destruction caused by friction with the Earth's atmosphere. The CSS has no heat-shield, however small parts of space stations reach the surface of the Earth, so uninhabited areas are targeted by de-orbit manoeuvres.
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