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Then it was only suspected, now it is headed in. One good solar flare to poof up the atmosphere and down it will come.

I guess the Chinese figured you always burn up your first space station. (Skylab, Mir)

FWIW, Mir was definitely not Russia's first station, and not even the first one to re-enter uncontrolled.

"The deorbit of Mir was the controlled atmospheric re-entry"[1]

"Build one to throw away. You will, anyway."