China's Tianzhou 7 spacecraft burns up in Earth's atmosphere to end cargo mission (video)

Earth rising below a black space sky, with the docking hatch of a spacecraft in the foreground.

China has deorbited a cargo spacecraft that earlier this year delivered supplies to the country's space station.

That freighter, called Tianzhou 7, launched on a Long March 7 rocket from the Wenchang spaceport on Jan. 17, arriving at the Tiangong space station hours later. It delivered supplies for astronauts, experiments, materials and propellant to keep operations running smoothly aboard Tiangong.