Saturday, May 8, 2021

Chinese rocket debris set to hit Earth this weekend — but ...

 

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    Wang Wenbin

    Chinese foreign ministry spokesman
    On 29 April, the Chang Zheng-5B launch vehicle successfully launched the base module of the orbital station into orbit. The Chinese side is closely …
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    Mike Howard

    Defense Department spokesperson
    The debris can be expected to hit the Earth between 8th and 10th of May. In these two days span, it goes around the world 30 times. So, it is very difficult to …
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    Gianluca Masi

    Astrophysicist
    At the imaging time, the rocket stage was at about 700km from our telescope while the Sun sun was just a few degrees below the horizon, so the sky was …
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    Wang Ya'nan

    Chief editor of Aerospace Knowledge magazine
    Most of the debris will burn up during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, leaving only a very small portion that may fall to the ground, which will potentially la…
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    Bill Harwood

    CBS News Space Analyst
    Usually rockets stages fall right back to Earth. But in this case, because it’s a single-stage rocket, the core stayed in orbit, and that’s the problem.
  • Chinese rocket debris set to hit Earth this weekend — but ...

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    1 day ago · Chinese rocket debris set to hit Earth this weekend — but no one knows where There is a tiny chance the debris could hit New York, Los Angeles, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, the Nigerian capital of ...

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