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China s rocket debris spurs calls to limit space junk
ANI
19 May 2021, 00:56 GMT+10
Beijing [China], May 18 (ANI): The uncontrolled re-entry of a China Long March rocket into Earth s atmosphere has spurred the calls for new policies to help mitigate the growing problem of space junk.
Early this month, the remnants of the Chinese rocket plunged into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives.
Most of the huge Long March 5B rocket, however, burned up on reentering the atmosphere, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said in a post on WeChat, before it landed just west of the Maldives.
The rocket, which was about 108 feet tall and weighs nearly 40,000 pounds, had launched a piece of a new Chinese space station into orbit on April 29.
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The remnants of China’s largest rocket have landed into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, sparking international anxiety and a sharp rebuke from the US space agency.
In the early hours of Sunday, the rocket made an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth, with social media users across the world reporting sightings of debris hurtling across the skies.
The segment that landed near the Maldives was part of the Long March 5B, which carried the first core module of China’s space station into space on April 29.
“The last stage wreckage of the Long March 5B rocket has re-entered the atmosphere and the landing area is at 72.47°E longitude and 2.65°N latitude,”