{"id":11292,"date":"2022-07-31T14:37:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/07\/31\/chinas-uncontrolled-rocket-crashes-down-over-the-indian-ocean\/"},"modified":"2022-07-31T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:37:32","slug":"chinas-uncontrolled-rocket-crashes-down-over-the-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/07\/31\/chinas-uncontrolled-rocket-crashes-down-over-the-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s uncontrolled rocket crashes down over the Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/30\/23285239\/china-uncontrolled-rocket-crashes-down-indian-ocean-long-march-5b-borneo\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/30\/23285239\/china-uncontrolled-rocket-crashes-down-indian-ocean-long-march-5b-borneo<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"77.523553162853\">\n<p id=\"BPSSWr\">China\u2019s uncontrolled Long March 5B rocket reentered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, landing somewhere near Sarawak, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. <\/p>\n<p id=\"3V8Jpb\">The US Space Command <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/US_SpaceCom\/status\/1553436525404323842\">confirmed the rocket\u2019s reentry<\/a> at 12:45PM ET, but it remains unclear where its debris landed. In <a href=\"https:\/\/share.api.weibo.cn\/share\/324648299,4797108085066235.html\">a translated post on Weibo<\/a>, China\u2019s Manned Space Agency said the rocket reentered near the same area, and that most of it burned up on its way down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"Q7mjkD\"><q>Uncertainty about where the rocket would land rippled across the globe<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"1WDm8E\">On July 24th, China used a Long March 5B rocket to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/24\/23276578\/china-launches-wentian-module-tiangong-space-station\">launch a lab module to its unfinished Tiangong space station<\/a>. Unlike most rockets, the Long March 5B thrusts its first stage into orbit when delivering its payload. This piece, which is over 100-feet-long and weighs over 22 tons, orbits the Earth for a bit until it comes crashing down to Earth, with no way to control its movement.<\/p>\n<p id=\"06qB46\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/28\/23280497\/china-long-march-5b-uncontrolled-rocket-reentry\">Uncertainty about where the rocket would land<\/a> rippled across the globe this past week, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AerospaceCorp\/status\/1553420906633916417?s=20&#038;t=IEwaZW0bQ0_hbLR3HzfUFw\">projections<\/a> had the rocket landing anywhere from Mexico to the southern tip of Africa. This is China\u2019s third Long March 5B launch, marking its third out-of-control landing. In 2020, China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/5\/21247776\/china-long-march-5b-rocket-launch-deep-space-prototype\">used a Long March 5B to bring Tiangong\u2019s core module<\/a> to space. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/13\/21256484\/china-rocket-debris-africa-uncontrolled-reentry-long-march-5b\">Debris from the rocket landed in the Ivory Coast<\/a>, and while no injuries were reported, there was some structural damage. Last year, China launched its first lab module aboard a Long March 5B, the pieces of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/9\/22426968\/chinese-rocket-re-entered-earth-atmosphere\">ended up splashing down into the Indian Ocean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Hl1d9y\" readability=\"6.2727272727273\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.6909090909091\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reentry looks to have been observed from Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia. Debris would land downrange in northern Borneo, possbily Brunei. [corrected] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sX6m1XMYoO\">https:\/\/t.co\/sX6m1XMYoO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet4589\/status\/1553428897097736193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"Fqefwz\">Malaysian users on Twitter captured the rocket\u2019s apparent reentry, with some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hanifDaslepzz\/status\/1553434530156908545\">believing it<\/a> to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nazriacai\/status\/1553424586624335872\">meteor<\/a>. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet4589\/status\/1553429793194053633?s=20&#038;t=mou9eB4oN5RMAK_ua35LAQ\">believes debris<\/a> from the rocket could end up near Sibu, Bintulu, or Brunei \u2014 three cities located along the northern coast of Borneo \u2014 but believes it\u2019s \u201cunlikely\u201d that it landed in a populated area. <\/p>\n<p id=\"e0cEIt\">NASA administrator Bill Nelson responded to the uncontrolled landing in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenBillNelson\/status\/1553442426546782208\">a statement on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cThe People\u2019s Republic of China did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth,\u201d Nelson writes. \u201cAll spacefaring nations should follow established best practices, and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"QsSENM\">Unfortunately, this isn\u2019t the last out-of-control rocket set to come crashing down to Earth. China\u2019s planning to launch its third and final module to Tiangong using a Long March 5B in October, and will use the rocket once again to bring a telescope to space in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/30\/23285239\/china-uncontrolled-rocket-crashes-down-indian-ocean-long-march-5b-borneo\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/30\/23285239\/china-uncontrolled-rocket-crashes-down-indian-ocean-long-march-5b-borneo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China\u2019s uncontrolled Long March 5B rocket reentered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, landing somewhere near Sarawak, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. The US Space Command confirmed the rocket\u2019s reentry at 12:45PM ET, but it remains unclear where its debris landed. In a translated post on Weibo, China\u2019s Manned Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,8],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-11292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China\u2019s uncontrolled rocket crashes down over the Indian Ocean - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/07\/31\/chinas-uncontrolled-rocket-crashes-down-over-the-indian-ocean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China\u2019s uncontrolled rocket crashes down over the Indian Ocean - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: China\u2019s uncontrolled Long March 5B rocket reentered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, landing somewhere near Sarawak, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. 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