According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, the 100-foot-tall, 22-ton Chinese 5B Long March 5B rocket launched the first part of the Beijing New Space Station and has re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere near the Maldives. The Washington Post, the US Space Command, is tracking the location of the rocket. The agency said the rocket "re-entered the Arabian Peninsula at approximately 10:15 p.m.. EDT added: "It is not clear whether the debris affected land or water.
The agency’s official Twitter account posted a tweet on Saturday night: “After #LongMarch5B enters again, everyone else can relax. The rocket is down”. The
rocket’s design places the entire first phase in low Earth orbit to provide its payload: a 22.5 metric ton Tianhe module will provide accommodation for China’s new space station in the upcoming
. This is not the first time that a Chinese rocket has renewed Entry into the earth’s atmosphere is not controlled. China’s first prototype space station, Tiangong-1, was launched in 2011, re-entered only seven years later, and burst into the atmosphere of the South Pacific.
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