CHINA SAYS ITS ROCKET DEBRIS UNLIKELY TO CAUSE ANY HARM

  • 07/05/2021

Most debris from a large Chinese rocket expected to plunge back through the atmosphere this weekend will be burned up on re-entry and is highly unlikely to cause any harm, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday..The location of the rocket's descent into Earth's atmosphere as it falls back from space "cannot be pinpointed until within hours of its re-entry", which is projected to occur around May 8, U.S. Space Command said this week.


Speaking in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said China was closely following the rocket's re-entry into the atmosphere, and that most of its components would be burned up upon re-entry."The probability of this process causing harm on the ground is extremely low," he said.
Based on its current orbit, the debris trail is likely to fall somewhere as far north as New York, Madrid or Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand, or anywhere in between, Harvard-based astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told media this week.

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