AFP
9 MAY 2021
A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, the Chinese space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down.
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. 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, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said in a statement, providing coordinates for a point in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives.
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By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -Remnants of China s biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with most of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the atmosphere, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit but drawing U.S. criticism over lack of transparency. The coordinates given by Chinese state media, citing the China Manned Space Engineering Office, put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago. Debris from the Long March 5B has had some people looking warily skyward since it blasted off from China s Hainan island on April 29, but the China Manned Space Engineering Office said most of the debris was burnt up in the atmosphere. State media reported parts of the rocket re-entered the atmosphere at 10:24 a.m. Beijing time (0224 GMT) and landed at a location with the coordinates of longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north. The U.S. Space command confirmed the re-entry of the rocket over the Arabian Peninsula, bu
China s Long March 5B rocket, launched on April 29 - AAP
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Remnants of China s biggest rocket have landed in the Indian Ocean, with most ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit Earth.
The coordinates given by Chinese state media put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago.
The China Manned Space Engineering Office says most of the debris was burnt up in the atmosphere.
State media reported parts of the rocket re-entered the atmosphere at 12.24 AEST and landed at a location with the coordinates of longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north.