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China's Rocket: The World Awaits Its Fate


Wed 05 May 2021 | 02:00 PM

Today, May 5, the world is keeping watch over the trajectory of the falling core from China's Massive Rocket called  Long March 5B or CZ-5B.

Also in this regard, the rocket is currently orbiting the Earth approximately once every 90 minutes and is traveling at around 17,149 mph (27,600km/h) and at an altitude of more than 186 miles (300 kilometers), the global space agency reports.

Last week, a Chinese Long March 5B launched its first core module of the Chinese Space Station (CSS), which is expected to be fully operated by 2022.

The core module which is the largest spacecraft developed by China was launched into low earth orbit by the 53.7-meter-long (China’s Long March-5B rocket), according to China’s media.

Unfortunately, the massive rocket that sent that module up into low earth orbit also entered a temporary orbit, meaning it will soon make one of the largest ever uncontrolled re-entries of a space machine, SpaceNews said earlier.

According to an official statement on Wednesday by the European Space Agency, the rocket is likely to fall back down to Earth on May 9 at nearly 17:23 UTC.

"However, there is a margin of error of approximately one day," the statement added."

Notably, the largest and most popular incident was the 1979 reentry of NASA’s 76-ton Skylab, whose uncontrolled reentry scattered debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.