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China says remnants of Long March 5B about to re-enter earth’s atmosphere

China says remnants of Long March 5B about to re-enter earth’s atmosphere | Reuters

The remnants of China’s Long March 5B rocket are set to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere at 10:12 a.m. Beijing time (0212 GMT), plus or minus 15 minutes, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said on Sunday.

The debris from the rocket will make its re-entry over a location at longitude 28.38 degrees east and latitude 34.43 degrees north, China Manned Space Engineering Office said in a post on its official social media account.

The coordinates put the point of re-entry somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea.

Chinese rocket debris crashes into Indian Ocean - state media - BBC News

Reuters link not working for me

Hopefully there is no damage to the Maldives islands as they have some irreplaceable wild areas on the small islands shown in the landing area

Barman58 said:

Chinese rocket debris crashes into Indian Ocean - state media - BBC News

Reuters link not working for me

Hopefully there is no damage to the Maldives islands as they have some irreplaceable wild areas on the small islands shown in the landing area

That's weird. A Reuters link not working in the UK?

I'm glad it didn't land in the Mediterranean Sea, though.

It has a requirement to log-in and some do not want to sign up for occasional use - personally I have waaay to many

Barman58 said:

It has a requirement to log-in and some do not want to sign up for occasional use - personally I have waaay to many

Ah. We don't have the log in requirement over here.

I also think it's pretty crazy that China is letting these uncontrolled reentry incidents continue.
Last year the stuff crashed in Africa.

Works fine for me

z3r010 said:

Works fine for me

Maybe it's just a Wales thing?

Ghot said:

That's weird. A Reuters link not working in the UK?

I'm glad it didn't land in the Mediterranean Sea, though.

Link works for me, so it's not a UK thing.