It added that most of the segment disintegrated and was destroyed during re-entry.
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A Long March 5B rocket carrying a module for a Chinese space station lifts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Wenchang. (Photo | AP) By AFP
BEIJING: 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.
China rocket debris likely plunged into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, says China s space agency kake.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kake.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Debris from the Long March 5B has had some people looking warily skyward since shortly after 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.
Debris Of China’s Long March 5B-Rocket Crashes Into Indian Ocean Near Maldives
The rocket, carrying the core module for China’s Tiangong Space Station, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the southern island province of Hainan on April 29. Representational Image/ Unsplash Outlook Web Bureau 2021-05-09T11:07:50+05:30 Debris Of China’s Long March 5B-Rocket Crashes Into Indian Ocean Near Maldives outlookindia.com 2021-05-09T11:19:36+05:30
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Debris of China’s Long March 5B-rocket crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives on Sunday.
The core of the Chinese Long March 5B rocket carried the core module of the country s space station into low Earth orbit last week. But after that mission was completed, the rocket lost control and began plunging towards Earth.