A 25-ton Chinese rocket booster will crash to Earth today. What's the risk?

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  • Kafa88 kafa88 2 years ago

    Graphic of the reentry location for China's Long March 5B rocket in the north Pacific Atlantic Ocean on July 30, 2022.

     

    The core stage of a slot Chinese Long March 5B rocket is set to tumble uncontrollably back to Earth today in a reentry that China is tracking closely and has said poses little risk. The roughly 25-ton (23 metric tons) rocket stage, which launched on July 24 to deliver

    the Wentian laboratory cabin module to China's incomplete Tiangong space station, is predicted to reenter Earth's atmosphere on July 30 at 12:15 p.m. ET, give or take 1 hours, according to researchers at The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies. 

    Exactly where it will land is unknown, but the possible debris field includes the U.S., India, Australia, Africa, Brazil and Southeast Asia, according to The Aerospace Corporation, a U.S. government-funded nonprofit research center based in California

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