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Chinese rocket tracker – live: Falling spacecraft falls to Earth over Indian Ocean, reports say – Yahoo Finance
If rocket debris landed over an inhabited area, it would be akin to a ‘small plane crash … over 100 miles’.
The Long March 5B rocket, which carried a Chinese space station module, has dropped into low Earth orbit and now risks crashing back down.
The rocket successfully launched the Tianhe module last week, which will become the living quarters of the future Chinese Space Station (CSS). Unfortunately, the 30-metre long rocket also reached orbit, and is now one of the largest ever launches to make an uncontrolled re-entry.
It is uncommon for rockets to reach the velocity necessary to reach orbit, but it…
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