Gary Brown: Keeping an eye on the sky Gary Brown That's disconcerting. According to a report from The Guardian, the rocket that carried the "core module" for China's space station is in a "failing orbit" and is falling "unpredictably" to Earth at a rate of 27,600 kilometers per hour, which is a metric term for a speed roughly equivilant in English terms to "like a bat out of ..." Ironically, the piece of the rocket that the module was boosting into space was the living quarters for the space station named "Tianhe," or "Harmony of the Heavens," if you translate the moniker.