The Chinese space station dropped 60 miles closer to Earth on June 13 and remained there for 10 days.

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Chinese space station Tiangong-2 could be falling back to Earth just three months after Tiangong-1 made an uncontrolled fiery re-entry into the planet's atmosphere.

According to Space.com, the Tiangong-2 dropped almost 60 miles two weeks ago and stayed there for 10 days before returning to its normal orbiting distance of 242 miles.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told SpaceNews that "it seems likely that the lowering of Tiangong-2's orbit is the first step in safely disposing of it." He added that the station likely used two burns to fall to the lower altitude.