China says most rocket debris burned up during reentry
“An ocean reentry was always statistically the most likely.China won its gamble…but it was still reckless, wrote Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. Author: Associated Press Updated: 5:59 AM CDT May 9, 2021
WASHINGTON China s space agency said a core segment of its biggest rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere above the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and that most of it burned up early Sunday.
Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who tracked the tumbling rocket part, said on Twitter, “An ocean reentry was always statistically the most likely. It appears China won its gamble… But it was still reckless.”