This Chinese rocket will fall this Saturday, without any type of control, on different areas of the Earth.
Space research continues with different countries launching rockets into space, and in addition to the United States and Russia, China is also in the space race and parts of a chinese rocket they could fall to Earth, with possible human damage, and Spain is not exempt from the danger.
A Chinese rocket could fall uncontrollably this weekend and could cause human damagewarn the authorities with concern, via Dailymail.
Specifically, it is a huge piece of 21 tons China’s Long March 5B booster rocket which is the length of a 10-story buildingand that this very Saturday it will make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere and worst of all, it is not known where it may fall.
This rocket was launched on October 31 and carried the third module to the Tiangong space station, and its re-entry into the atmosphere will take place in the next few hours.
“As the altitude of the rocket body decreases and reentry approaches, the window will shrink and begin to reveal places that will not be the landing site.“, it states Gregory Henningproject leader at the Center for Orbital Reentry and Debris Studies (CORDS) at The Aerospace Corporation.
“Worst of all, the exact location will not be known until you actually re-enter“, Add.
Henning clarifies that “88% of the world’s population lives within the latitude limits at risk but the odds of one person being affected are 6 in 10 billion”.
What is this chinese rocket about
The module called Mengtian It went into space last Monday from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in the island province of Hainan.
Mengtian is the station’s second laboratory module and joins Wentian, both connected to the central Tianhe module where the Chinese crew lives and works.
Clarify that Mengtian was launched on board the rocket Long March 5Bone of the most powerful and famous launch vehicles in China, and it is not the first time that they have made this type of uncontrolled reentry back to Earth.
However, The Aerospace Corporation states that “a reentry of this size will not burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. The general rule of thumb is that 20-40% of the mass of a large object will hit the ground, although it depends on the design of the object”.
Most of these rockets return as space debris to Earth. burning in the atmosphere but 40% of its body can fall to the ground or to the oceanbeing a danger to humans and natural environments.
It will be this Saturday, a few hours before the re-entry of the rocket into our atmosphere, when the authorities can give a series of candidate locations to receive the impact, although most should fall into the ocean.
