China closely monitoring uncontrolled debris from rocket. It could hit Earth within days
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China closely monitoring uncontrolled debris from rocket. It could hit Earth within days
Wednesday (July 27) that it is closely monitoring the latest piece of big Chinese space junk that will fall back on Earth.Experts are worried because they aren't sure where exactly it will land. However, they have estimated that re-entry will occur around the end of the month, possibly on July 31 at 02:22 UTC ± 17 hours.
China's manned space agency said only small parts of the Tianzhou-3 ship survived a safe landing in a predetermined area of the South Pacific on Wednesday.Zhao said, "It is understood that this type of rocket adopts a special technical design that most of the components will be burned and destroyed during the re-entry process. The potential for damage to aviation activities or on the ground is extremely low ." The mentioned rocket junk is about 21 tons. It was part of the Venetian Space Station module launched on Sunday.
A Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket propelled the Wentian spacecraft uncrewed from the Wenchang Launch Center on the Chinese tropical island of Hainan. The rocket body's re-entry path from the CZ-5B launch is tracked by The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Orbital Reentry and Debris Studies (CORDS) and according to researchers at The Aerospace Corporation, "a populated area has a non-zero chance of living debris landing—more than 88 percent of the world's population lives under the potential debris footprint of reentry."