China’s space administration: Debris from a large Chinese rocket, the Long March 5B, landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives

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China’s space administration: Debris from a large Chinese rocket, the Long March 5B, landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives
China’s space administration: Debris from a large Chinese rocket, the Long March 5B, landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives

A 10-story, 23-ton piece of a Chinese rocket will crash into Earth sometime over the weekend — but no one knows where

China said Friday the risk of damage from a rocket falling back to Earth was “extremely low” after the United States warned it could crash down on to an inhabited area.

Military experts in the US expect the body of the Long March 5B rocket, which separated from Beijing’s space station, to come down sometime around Saturday or Sunday, but warned it was difficult to predict where it will land and when.

But Beijing downplayed the risk of danger.

“The probability of causing harm to aviation activities or (on people and activities) on the ground is extremely low,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

A 10-story, 23-ton piece of a Chinese rocket will crash into Earth sometime over the weekend — but no one knows where

The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about how the country’s space program designs its missions

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