Recently we saw in News that a large segment of a Chinese rocket was expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. The Debris from a Chinese rocket fell into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives.
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The main segment from the Long March-5b vehicle was used to launch the first module of China’s new space station last month.
Originally injected into an elliptical orbit approximately 160km by 375km (99 miles by 233 miles) above the Earth’s surface on 29 April, the Long March-5b core stage soon began to lose height.
Maldives is a small archipelagic state in South Asia situated in the Indian Ocean. It lies southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 700 kilometres (430 mi) from the Asian continent’s mainland.
Maldives became a founding member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). It is also a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
