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China defends handling of rocket debris, accuses America of double standards – ABC News
China says it closely tracked the trajectory of its Long March 5B rocket booster and points to Western media using “romantic rhetoric” about recent SpaceX debris…
China’s government defended its handling of a rocket booster that burned up over the Indian Ocean and said it was unfairly being held to different standards than the space programs of the United States and others.
- China says it tracked the rocket and shared its re-entry predictions
- A Foreign Ministry spokesperson compared media coverage of the Chinese rocket with reports describing SpaceX debris as “lighting up the night sky”
- NASA’s administrator accused China of “failing to meet responsible standards”…
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