An Ivorian gendarme takes notes next to debris that fell from space in the village of N’Guessankro near Bouake in central region in Ivory Coast on May 12, 2020. In 2020, debris from another Chinese rocket crashed down on Earth, landing in Africa’s Ivory Coast.
It’s still too early to predict the potential crash site, according to Aerospace. EST, the estimated landing time for the rocket was 2:16 p.m. Chinese characters on screen reads “19 meters parking point.” (Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua via AP)Īs of Friday at 6:40 p.m. The Chinese cargo spacecraft has largely burned up on reentering the atmosphere, amid separate concerns over China’s decision to allow a massive booster rocket to fall to Earth uncontrolled. In this image released by Xinhua News Agency, a computer generated simulation screen image at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center on July 17, 2022, shows the Tianzhou-3 cargo craft, right, separating from the orbiting station combination. That craft has largely burned up on reentering the atmosphere, and now concerns remain over China’s decision to allow a massive booster rocket to fall to Earth uncontrolled. The booster rocket follows the reentry earlier this week of a Chinese cargo spacecraft that serviced the country’s permanent orbiting space station. The nonprofit emphasized that existing technology could have been used to avoid this situation. While the risk of a person being struck by debris in this instance is roughly 1 per 100 billion (getting struck by lightning is 80,000 times more likely), according to the Aerospace Corporation, it is ten times greater than commonly accepted thresholds. In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a screen image captured at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Jshows the Tianzhou-3 cargo craft separating from the orbiting station combination. There is a “non-zero chance” that debris will land in a populated area, although the chances of that are very small and it’s too early to speculate about where that might happen. The Aerospace Corporation is a nonprofit analysis group that works for “a variety of government, civil and commercial customers,” according to the nonprofit’s website. ( WBOY/NEXSTAR) - A massive Chinese booster rocket is set to crash down on Saturday, analysts say, but is there a chance that it could land in the United States?Ĭonsidering the size of the 23-ton booster, experts with The Aerospace Corporation say, the object will not burn up completely upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, and they expect 20-40 percent of the wreckage to hit the ground. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĬLARKSBURG, W.Va. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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