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The re-entry dashboard has the live details, but its preventing direct links, so I've linked to the main page.
Seems to me that the dashboard is basically a png that is refreshed ever so often.
get this, at 22:52:28 UTC, the time to reentry is 1.6h +- 1.7h
I think that's because it's currently not tracked. I.e., the station could have reentered a couple of minuted ago, and they wouldn't know.
correct, also extrapolating on bunch of equation systems is bound to lead to this sort math aberration
It was, confusingly, a computed dashboard -- not an actual tracker.
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What other live data is there for this?

(Besides the PNG which I am now downloading every 30 seconds using this in an empty dir:)

  while true; do wget http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png -O $(date +%s).png; sleep 30; done
Seems to update every 5 minutes at the moment; I'm overengineering incase they increase it at some point.
Looks like it's done.
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After a multi-hour fight with imgur, which has some of the most BROKEN website design I have experienced (so. many. bugs.), I uploaded the tiny album of snapshots I took.

https://imgur.com/a/CWkeP