Views: Visits 5 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. But the US space agency NASA and some experts said China had behaved irresponsibly, as an uncontrolled re-entry of such a large object risked damage and casualties.
NASA denounces China over irresponsible standards after its rocket disintegrates over Indian Ocean
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WASHINGTON: American space agency NASA on Sunday slammed China for failing to meet responsible standards regarding its space debris, hours after remnants of the country s largest and an out of control rocket disintegrated over the Indian Ocean near the Maldives.
The debris from China s Long March 5B rocket re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere at 10.24 am Beijing time and fell into an open sea area at 72.47 degrees east longitude and 2.65 degrees north latitude, China s Manned Space Engineering Office said.
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Debris from Chinese rocket lands in Indian Ocean near Maldives
The Long March-5B rocket had launched the first module of China s new space station into Earth orbit on April 29.PHOTO: AFP
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Washington [US], May 9 (ANI): NASA, the US space agency, castigated China for failing to meet "responsible standards regarding its space debris" after remnants of a Chinese rocket plunged into the Indian Ocean.
China s space agency says rocket debris likely plunged into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives Updated: 4:53 AM EDT May 9, 2021 Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Share Updated: 4:53 AM EDT May 9, 2021
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Show Transcript The first thing to keep in mind here, scientists say is that you do not need to panic about this. This is not the end of days. Yes, there is a 22 ton chinese rocket that is hurdling around the world at 18,000 miles an hour and it s going to hit potentially somewhere in the world once it enters the Earth s atmosphere, which is believed to likely happen between May 8th, which is saturday, May 9th sunday Mother s Day or May 10th. So one of those three days, there is a chance that because this thing is so big, 22 tons is roughly 1/5 of the size of the U. S. Statue of liberty minus the base. So you ve got big pieces of metal that might not burn up upon reentry. Like most things that fall from space do and they could land. Most