The remains of a separate cargo spacecraft that serviced the station fell into a predetermined area of the South Pacific after most of it burned up on re-entry, the government announced earlier.Ĭhina has poured billions of dollars into space flight and exploration as it seeks to build a programme that reflects its stature as a rising global power. It was attached on Monday to the Tianhe main module, where three astronauts live. The July 24 launch of the Long March-5B, China’s most powerful rocket, carried the Wentian laboratory into orbit. CNN An out-of-control Russian rocket stage has re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere, according to the latest estimate from US Space Command, which has been tracking its descent. An 18-tonne rocket fell uncontrolled in May 2020.Ĭhina also faced criticism after using a missile to destroy one of its defunct weather satellites in 2007, creating a field of debris that other governments said might jeopardise other satellites. The country’s first space station, Tiangong-1, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2016 after Beijing confirmed it lost control. NASA accused Beijing last year of “failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris” after parts of a Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean. A massive piece of a Chinese rocket is falling uncontrolled toward Earth and scientists don’t know where it might land or what damage it could cause. This sweeping occurs when the exhaust is deflected into a horizontal wind that picks up and carries dust particles. Onlookers watch the launch of a rocket transporting China’s second module for its Tiangong space station from the Wenchang spaceport in southern China Ĭhina has faced criticism for allowing rocket stages to fall to Earth uncontrolled twice before. The evidence from Apollo missions is that landers’ rocket exhausts appeared to sweep away surface dust leaving a clean rock surface but no crater. There was no immediate word from the Philippine authorities about whether anyone on the ground was affected.
That is in waters southeast of the Philippine city of Puerto Princesa on the island of Palawan. The announcement gave no details of whether the remaining debris fell on land or sea, but said the “landing area” was at 119 degrees east longitude and 9.1 degrees north latitude.
The agency said earlier the booster would be allowed to fall unguided. Most of the final stage of the Long March-5B rocket burned up after entering the atmosphere, the China Manned Space Agency reported on Saturday. Debris from a rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit has fallen into the sea in the Philippines, according to the Chinese government.
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