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Somewhere on Earth, it could rain rocket parts this weekend as a runaway Chinese spacecraft breaks up in the atmosphere mmcfalljohnsen@insider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen) © China Daily via Reuters The Long March 5B Y2 rocket, carrying the core module of China's space station takes off from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center in Hainan province, China, on April 29. China Daily via Reuters Experts expect about 5 to 9 metric tons of rocket parts to rain down somewhere on Earth. The rocket stage is circling much of the inhabited world, but it will most likely land in the ocean. S...

Print this article The Defense Department said Wednesday it has no plans to shoot down and break up a 46,000-pound Chinese rocket hurtling toward Earth and expected to reenter the atmosphere on Saturday. China launched the first module of its space station Thursday atop a 100-foot-long Long March 5B rocket, but unlike most rockets, the 5B will not follow a preplanned path safely into an ocean. Rather, it is still in space and falling closer to Earth. U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs is tracking the rocket’s path, but the Pentagon said today it is too early to tell where it might fall...

The Long March 5B rocket was successfully launched from China's space station, and now a large part of it is making its way back down to Earth, where it's expected to land...somewhere.

After fireballs streaked across sky, space-junk sleuths got busy — and hit the jackpot in Washington By Dominic Gates, , The Seattle Times (TNS), Published: April 22, 2021, 8:25pm Share: People across the Pacific Northwest were awed on the evening of March 25 by an otherworldly formation of fireballs that streaked across the heavens, causing a social media sensation. Astronomers promptly demystified it as debris from a falling SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Though such wayward rockets generally burn up in the atmosphere, this time substantial chunks fell to earth in Eastern Washing...

After fireballs streaked across sky, space-junk sleuths got busy — and hit the jackpot in Washington [The Seattle Times] Apr. 22—People across the Pacific Northwest were awed on the evening of March 25 by an otherworldly formation of fireballs that streaked across the heavens, causing a social media sensation. Astronomers promptly demystified it as debris from a falling SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Though such wayward rockets generally burn up in the atmosphere, this time substantial chunks fell to earth in Eastern Washington. At least one came uncomfortably close to hitting people. Yet neithe...