Chinese rocket reenters over Indian Ocean: PSI
Hyderabad, May 9 (UNI) The US Space Force s 18th Space Control Squadron has now confirmed that the Chinese long march rocket CZ-5B-Y2 reentered over the Indian Ocean.
Sharing this to UNI, Planetary Society of India (PSI) Director N Sri Raghunandan Kumar said the exact pinpointed location was not mentioned but they say north of the Maldives at 50E 22.2N which is in the Rub al Khali desert of Saudi Arabia.
He said while going around one of its circled journey around the earth this morning this Rocket Body flew above Mumbai and Hyderabad in India, before it finally hit the earth.
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A large segment of China s largest rocket re-entered the Earth s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday. According to the Chinese space agency, a bulk amount of its components were destroyed upon re-entry into the Earth s atmosphere.
Officials in Beijing had said there was little risk from the freefalling segment of the Long March-5B rocket, which had launched the first module of China s new space station into Earth orbit on April 29.
The China Manned Space Engineering Office released a statement that After monitoring and analysis, at 10:24 (0224 GMT) on May 9, 2021, the last-stage wreckage of the Long March 5B Yao-2 launch vehicle has re-entered the atmosphere.
By We re tracking it. We re following it as closely as we can. It s just a little too soon right now to know where it s going to go or what if anything can be done about that, a U.S. Space Command spokesman told reporters. (Guo Wenbin/AP Photo)
There’s a giant Chinese rocket booster hurtling toward the planet, and no one seems to know exactly when or where it’s going to land.
The U.S. Space Command said it is tracking the whereabouts of the Chinese Long March 5B, a 23-ton piece of space debris, but that the exact entry point into Earth’s atmosphere cannot be pinpointed until hours before its reentry, which is expected sometime around Saturday.
Re-entry of the space junk is expected Saturday within an 18-hour window
The re-entry prediction for the Long March 5B rocket body from The Aerospace Corp.‘s Center for Orbital and Re-entry Debris Studies from earlier this week. The ground traces shown in the above image extend the full uncertainty window for re-entry with predictions expected to improve as re-entry draws closer. (The Aerospace Corp. photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
May 7, 2021
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Some Vandenberg Air Force Base members have been keeping a close eye on out-of-control debris from a Chinese rocket as they calculate as close as possible when and where the space junk might land.