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China s rocket: Uncontrolled, unpredictable return home
It s impossible to predict when and where China s Long March 5 rocket, a CZ-5B, will crash down to Earth. But it will. The question is: What s the risk?
China wants to show it is a real player in space exploration it holds a number of world firsts
Only a few weeks ago, the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket made an uncontrolled reentry into Earth s atmosphere after deploying Starlink telecommunication satellites for the company.
The rocket lit up the sky over homes in the Portland and Washington State area of the US.
Now, spaceflight experts expect the core stage of a Chinese Long March 5 rocket to do the same in the next few days.
SpaceX capsule reaches space station
Recently refurbished The space station has been undergoing this midlife upgrade for some time. New hardware up there, new operations, a lot more interesting experiments, said Cristoforetti. One thing she is particularly looking forward to is a new piece of equipment already waiting on board the ISS to go into operation in the space laboratory Columbus: a 3D printer to print metal in space.
ESA s astronaut class from 2009: Cristoforetti and her colleague Pesquet (on her right) will fly to the ISS in 2022 and 2021
And the ISS has its own space balcony now: Bartolomeo, a platform newly installed outside the Columbus module that will allow private companies to carry out experiments under space conditions.