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A Long March 5B rocket carrying China s Chang e-5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Center on China s southern Hainan Island on November 24, 2020, on a mission to bring back lunar rocks, the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the moon in four decades.
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Debris from a Chinese rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, Chinese officials said, easing days of anxiety that pieces would fall on densely populated areas.
The China Manned Space Engineering Office said the Long March-5B rocket made the re-entry at 10:24 a.m. Beijing time on Sunday. Most of the components of the rocket’s wreckage were burned up and destroyed during the re-entry, it said.
Korea, US discuss joint responses to falling Chinese rocket debris
Posted : 2021-05-07 10:47
Updated : 2021-05-07 10:47
In this file photo, a Long March 5B rocket carrying China s Chang e-5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Center on China s southern Hainan Island on November 24, 2020, on a mission to bring back lunar rocks, the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the moon in four decades. AFP-Yonhap
South Korea and the United States on Friday discussed ways to jointly respond to remnants of a Chinese rocket expected to crash into Earth this weekend, the Air Force said.
The Long March 5B rocket was launched last week carrying a module of China s first permanent space station into orbit. But a large piece of debris is expected to plunge back in an uncontrolled reentry on around Saturday (U.S. time), according to the U.S. Space Command.
Washington: No, you are almost certainly not going to be hit by a 10-storey, 23-ton piece of a rocket hurtling back to Earth.
That said, the chances are not zero. Part of China’s largest rocket, the Long March 5B, is tumbling out of control in orbit after launching a section of the country’s new space station last week. The rocket is expected to fall to Earth in what is called “an uncontrolled reentry” sometime on Saturday or Sunday.
Whether it splashes harmlessly in the ocean or impacts land where people live, why China’s space programme let this happen - again - remains unclear. And given China’s planned schedule of launches, more such uncontrolled rocket reentries in the years to come are possible.
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