The fragments are from a Chinese space module launched at the end of last month. There had been speculation about where the debris would land, but experts predicted the chances of death or injuries were tiny.
The remnants of China’s Long March 5B rocket reentered the earth s atmosphere at 10:24 am Beijing time, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said on Sunday.
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An out-of-control Chinese rocket is expected to reenter Earth s atmosphere between 1:00 and 5:00 UTC Sunday, but experts do not know where debris from the craft will land or exactly when it will happen. Aerospace Corp. and Space-Track.org are following the rocket as it descends. Space-Track.org estimated Saturday evening that the rocket would reenter the atmosphere over the North Atlantic at 02:04 UTC (10:04 p.m. EDT), give or take one hour. Aerospace Corp. put it at 03:02 UTC 11:02 p.m. EDT), give or take two hours. Aerospace Corp. is a nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research-and-development center committed to space enterprise, according to its website. And Space-Track.org says it provides critical space situational awareness data for a worldwide space community. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Friday that the rocket was unlikely to cause damage. Wang told reporters in Beijing that the.
China said on Sunday that the debris from its disintegrating Long March rocket has entered the Earth s atmosphere with most of its parts burned up during its