The remains of the second stage of the CZ-2F/G launch vehicle, which recently delivered the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft to the Chinese orbital station, burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday. A small amount of debris fell into the Pacific Ocean, the Manned Space Flight Program Administration of the People’s Republic of China reported.

In a statement published on the ministry’s WeChat page, it is stated that the second stage of CZ-2F/G entered the atmosphere at 11:18 Beijing time (06:18 Kiev time). The coordinates of the fall are 158.4 degrees east longitude and 31.3 degrees south latitude. It is approximately 460 km east of Australia.

The CZ-2F/G rocket was launched from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in northern China at 11:14 Beijing time on October 26. He carried Shenzhou-17 into orbit with three cosmonauts. The crew will remain on the station for six months and conduct scientific experiments and tests of various payloads there.

The Chinese station is located at an altitude of approximately 400 km and will serve for more than 10 years. Designed for three people (up to six for a short period during crew rotation). The mass of the complex in the shape of the letter T with three docking nodes and a gateway to space (it is planned to expand it to a cruciform shape in the near future) is 66 tons, the volume of compartments reaches 110 cubic meters. m.In 2022, the orbital facility became operational and became available for use by international projects.