Read more about Debris of China s disintegrating Long March rocket falls into Indian Ocean on Business Standard. Pieces of the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere at 10:24 a.m. Sunday local time and plunged into the sea at around 72.47 degrees east longitude and 2.65 degrees north latitude
A stage from this Long March 5B rocket carrying a module for a Chinese space station, shown at liftoff last month, reentered the Earth s atmosphere over the Maldives Sunday and mostly burned up, China s Xinhua News Agency said. (Ju Zhenhua/Xinhua via AP, File)
NASA criticizes China as debris from rocket lands in Indian Ocean By Associated Press and Spectrum News Staff International UPDATED 8:13 AM ET May. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:08 AM ET May. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:08 AM EDT May. 09, 2021
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BEIJING China’s space agency said a core segment of its biggest rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere above the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and that most of it burned up early Sunday.
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The remnants of China’s rogue Long March 5B rocket reportedly landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday late Saturday night Eastern U.S. time after its uncontrolled descent was tracked around the world over the past week.
Reuters reported the landing, citing information from the Chinese government.
In addition, U.S. Space Command retweeted a post by Space-Track.org, indicating the rocket debris had landed.
Earlier Saturday, the Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron listed possible landing sites in Costa Rica, Haiti, Australia, Spain, Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and New Zealand sometime between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET.