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KOMPAS.com – Remnants of China’s largest rocket launched last week fell to Earth on Sunday (9/5/2021), landing at the coordinating points of 72.47 east longitude and 2.65 degrees latitude, precisely near the Maldives, Indian Ocean.

According to a Chinese government report, China’s Manned Aerospace Engineering Office, flakes roket Long March 5B which weighs 18 tonnes, entered the earth’s atmosphere at 2.24 GMT or 9.24 WIB Sunday morning.

The report said most of the rocket debris burned in the atmosphere.

Reporting from Aljazeera, Sunday (9/5/2021), China’s foreign ministry said on Friday (7/5/2021) that the entry of debris from the Long March 5B rocket to Earth, is very unlikely to cause harm.

Also read: China’s Long March Rocket Expected to Fall to Earth This Week

US and European authorities have been closely monitoring the rocket traveling at a speed of about 4.8 miles (13.7 km) per second.

A difference of just one minute in re-entry time translates to a difference of hundreds of miles on land and previous predictions put it at a location from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific.

The Long March 5B – consisting of one core stage and four boosters – took off from China’s Hainan island on Thursday, April 29, 2021 on the unmanned Tianhe module, which will host China’s permanent space station.

China now reporting https://t.co/dHSJVoItCY that the rocket reentered at 0224 UTC at 72.47E 2.65N which is right over the Maldives. If correct will be interesting to see if we get reports from there pic.twitter.com/NQovz33pqg

— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) May 9, 2021

The plan, the rocket will be followed by 10 other missions to complete the station.

Is it dangerous?

Most experts say, the risk of danger from falling roket China this is for little humans.

“Given the size of the object, there will definitely be a large chunk left,” said Florent Delefie, an astronomer at the Paris-PSL Observatory.

“The chances of (Chinese rocket) debris landing in the habitable zone are very slim, maybe one in a million.”

In May 2020, pieces from the first Long March 5B crashed in Ivory Coast, damaging several buildings. No injuries were reported.

Also read: China’s Long March rocket falls uncontrollably to Earth, is it dangerous?

Debris from Chinese rocket launches often falls in the country of the bamboo curtain.

In late April, authorities in Shiyan City, Hubei Province, issued a notification to people around the county to prepare for evacuation as parts were expected to land in the area.

The remnants of the rocket constitute one of the largest chunks of space debris returning to Earth.

The core stage of the first Long March 5B to return to Earth last year weighed nearly 20 tonnes, surpassed only by debris from the shuttle Columbia in 2003, the Soviet Union’s Salyut 7 space station in 1991, and Skylab NASA in 1979.

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