Last week we reported that a Chinese missile Long March 5B gotta fall wild in Earth. Now the debris re-entered the atmosphere yesterday afternoon (30) over the Indian Ocean, possibly falling near the island Borneo and gives Malaysia.

According to the publication Chinese manned space agency through weibo, the rocket re-entered the same area where part of it burned out. The US Space Command confirmed this information, saying that the debris entered Earth’s atmosphere at 12:45 pm ET, 1:45 pm ET.

Initially, some experts believed that the rocket could fall in different parts of the world, both in any region of Mexico and in the extreme south of the African continent. Now edge points out that Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, claims that the debris fell near towns near Sibu, Bintulu or Bruneithat lie along the east coast of Borneo. McDowell says it’s unlikely the model fell to the ground in a populated area.

Some users twitter in the region (video above) recorded and published the moment of the apparent re-entry of the rocket into the Earth’s atmosphere, with some of them believing that the lights could be meteors:

Criticism of the Chinese mission

rocket Long March 5B launched the Wentien Lab, one of the modules of the Chinese space station, into low Earth orbit, Tiangong. The mission was successful, but the trip there did not take place. central stage Long March 5BMost of the rocket reportedly lacked reentry control technology.

Because of this, the return of the rocket to the ground was of great concern to the authorities of most of the world, since the central stage weighing 25 tons could fall on populated areas.

Credits: Disclosure/CSNA

The risk of space debris hitting people is growing

Article published in a scientific journal Astronomy of nature states that there is a 10% chance that space debris caused by rockets will cause casualties over the next 10 years. As there are more space launches, the speed should even increase over time. Moreover, there is no forecast that a new wave of the space race will step on the brakes.

Source: The Verge, CSNA.

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