Chinese rocket expected to crash into Earth this weekend

[margarita25]

Chinese rocket expected to crash into Earth this weekend
May 8, 2021

“A large Chinese rocket that is out of control is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere this weekend, bringing a final wave of concern before its debris makes impact somewhere on Earth.”

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The rocket was launched to carry a Chinese space station section into orbit

Big Chinese rocket segment set to fall to Earth

“The US on Thursday said it was watching the path of the object but currently had no plans to shoot it down.

"We're hopeful that it will land in a place where it won't harm anyone," US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. "Hopefully in the ocean, or someplace like that."”

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Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry by early Sunday - tracking centres
May 7, 2021

“China's foreign ministry said on Friday that most debris from the rocket will burn on re-entry and is highly unlikely to cause any harm, after the U.S. military said that what it called an uncontrolled re-entry was being tracked by U.S. Space Command.”

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[margarita25]

Live Tracking:

 

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“"The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small -- not negligible, it could happen -- but the risk that it will hit you is incredibly tiny. And so I would not lose one second of sleep over this on a personal threat basis," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, told CNN this week.”

Chinese rocket expected to crash into Earth this weekend

 

[margarita25]

Chinese rocket updates: Debris hurtling toward Earth at 18,000 mph
There's a 1 in 4 chance the debris hits land, not water, Space Force said.

*video at link

FAA tracks out-of-control Chinese rocket

“There is a small possibility debris will hit an airplane while in the sky.”

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“The rocket body's reentry is currently projected at anywhere between 7:30 p.m. ET and 1:30 a.m. ET, according to the latest U.S. Space Force data.”

 

[Really?]

I wonder where it will come down?

 

[dotr]

Do other countries send similar rockets into space not knowing where they will land on return, is this even allowed, should it be?

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I wonder where it will come down?

I haven't followed in the last 24 hours, but it was expected to go down last I heard SW of Australia.

 

[dotr]

Tracking says falling China rocket will crash to Earth within hours - follow live
''key points

• The 21-ton Long March 5B rocket carried a module of China’s new space station into low Earth orbit last week
• The speed of the rocket means it is orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes
• The Long March 5B core stage is seven times bigger than the second stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9

18 minutes ago
US Space Force gives latest prediction
We’ve got a new window from the US Space Force (or specifically the 18 Space Control Squadron).

It’s now expected at 2.04am UTC, with a 60 minutes window either side. So that’s somewhere between 1.04am and 3.04am UTC.

That’s 2.04am-4.04am UK time. Or 9.04pm-11.04pm on the east coast of the US.

Or just over five hours until the middle of the window.''

“CZ-5B R/B, a falling satellite”: online observation of the Chinese rocket body – 8 May 2021''

 

[margarita25]

Not sure if you all had a chance to watch all the videos above, but I found them quite, um, interesting and educational.

It seems there are ten more of these launches planned.

 

[lisaNYC]

Not sure if you all had a chance to watch all the videos above, but I found them quite, um, interesting and educational.

It seems there are ten more of these launches planned.

Can the launches be stopped?

 

[Inthedetails]

Steve Lookner on Agenda Free TV on youtube is covering it live now. I'm not linking as he is not technically MSM. Search for Agenda Free TV on youtube if you're interested. He'll probably be on for hours.

 

[zencompass]

Steve Lookner on Agenda Free TV on youtube is covering it live now. I'm not linking as he is not technically MSM. Search for Agenda Free TV on youtube if you're interested. He'll probably be on for hours.

Thanks, @Inthedetails! Greatly appreciate this ! I'm watching it now

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
Chinese Rocket Debris Hurtling Toward Earth, Point of Impact Unknown
By Daniel Politi
May 08, 20215:43 PM

A Long March 5B rocket, carrying China’s Tianhe space station core module, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China’s Hainan province on April 29, 2021. STR/Getty Images
''For now, reentry is expected sometime between 7:30 p.m. ET Saturday and 1:30 a.m. ET Sunday morning, according to the latest projections from the U.S. Space Force.

The rocket part is currently circling the earth and is moving at 18,000 mph, making it difficult for experts to estimate the reentry location of the booster rocket that weighs 23 tons and is 10 stories tall. The slim chance that the debris could fall into a populated area is raising questions about why China continues to carry out what is known as “uncontrolled re-entries” into the atmosphere. And their frequency could very well increase as China launches more missions to its new space station. This isn’t the first time that debris from a Chinese rocket poses a risk. A previous Long March 5B launch last year led to debris raining down on the Ivory Coast, which damaged several buildings but no injuries were reported. “It’s my judgment that the Chinese are negligent. China says it will probably fall in the ocean. But probably is doing a lot of work here. The last one would probably fall in the ocean, except it didn’t. It fell on the Ivory Coast,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells the Guardian.''

 

[zencompass]

Heads Up! A Used Chinese Rocket Is Tumbling Back to Earth This Weekend.

Excerpts:

“I think it’s negligent of them,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who tracks the comings and goings of objects in space.“ “I think it’s irresponsible.”

"Over the past three decades, only China has lifted rocket stages this big to orbit and left them to fall somewhere at random, Dr. McDowell said.

"Whether it splashes harmlessly in the ocean or impacts land where people live, why China’s space program let this happen — again — remains unclear. And given China’s planned schedule of launches, more such uncontrolled rocket re-entries in the years to come are possible.

"The country’s space program has executed a series of major achievements in spaceflight in the past six months, including returning rocks from the moon and putting a spacecraft in orbit around Mars. Yet it continues to create danger, however small, for people all over the planet by failing to control the paths of rockets it launches."

 

[Barnabas]

I know what I’m watching tonight. Thanks for the YouTube link Margarita25.

 

[zencompass]

Steve Lookner on Agenda Free TV on youtube is covering it live now. I'm not linking as he is not technically MSM. Search for Agenda Free TV on youtube if you're interested. He'll probably be on for hours.

The information is updated continuously by Steve Lookner.

Thank you again for advising of the Agenda Free TV covering this.

They just mentioned how the exact same thing happened last May with a chinese rocket and the debris landed in an Ivory Coast village. Thankfully, no casualties were reported.

So, the window opens at 9:30 ET - they've just reported. He said 1 1/2 hours from now.

Now Aerospace Corporation says 40 minutes from now.

The U.S. Government is saying there is only a 2-hour window and have predicted it happening between 9:00 p.m. ET and 11:00 p.m. ET tonight.

According to the graph line, the only certainty there seems to be is that it won't hit China.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Oh for crying out loud, what now? We’re only just coming out of lockdown, I am NOT getting squished by a pesky rocket just as the pubs and restaurants are reopening

 

[Inthedetails]

The information is updated continuously by Steve Lookner.

Thank you again for advising of the Agenda Free TV covering this.

They just mentioned how the exact same thing happened last May with a chinese rocket and the debris landed in an Ivory Coast village. Thankfully, no casualties were reported.

So, the window opens at 9:30 ET - they've just reported. He said 1 1/2 hours from now.

Now Aerospace Corporation says 40 minutes from now.

The U.S. Government is saying there is only a 2-hour window and have predicted it happening between 9:00 p.m. ET and 11:00 p.m. ET tonight.

According to the graph line, the only certainty there seems to be is that it won't hit China.

He's like a one-man WS for breaking news stories. He uses legit sources and shares the info. Always exciting when he says, "Breaking news! Breaking news!" lol

This rocket story is right up his alley.

jmo