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The newest piece of big Chinese space junk will fall back to Earth around the end of the month, experts predict.

 08 May 2021 - 13:54 File Photo. Reuters The Peninsula Online Doha: According to the satellite re-entry map released by International Astronomical Center, Qatar and five other Arab countries are safe from Chinese rocket debris falling on them.   In principle, according to the latest updates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Lebanon and Yemen are safe from the falling debris, stated the twitter account of the astronomy center.  In another tweet, it stated that the Chinese rocket debris will pass four times over the Arab world tonight. The first being at 6:30pm over the Arabian Gulf, then at 8:...

Remnants of China's largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere in the coming hours, European and U.S. tracking centres said on Saturday.

Remnants of China’s largest rocket, launched last week, plunged back through the atmosphere on Sunday, landing at a location of longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north, placing it close to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. The 18-tonne remnants of the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the earth’s atmosphere at 10.24 am Beijing time (02:24 GMT), Chinese state media reported, citing the China Manned Space Engineering Office. Most of the debris was burnt up in the atmosphere, it said. China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that the re-entry and was highly unlikely to ca...

KSL TV LIVE:TRACK OUT OF CONTROL ROCKET RE-ENTRY [Chinese Long March 5B] 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 sinc...