Out-of-control Chinese rocket falling to Earth

China recently launched the Part of a huge rocket that launched China’s first module for its Tianhe space station. Now it is falling back to Earth and could make an uncontrolled re-entry at an unknown landing point.

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The 30-metre high core of the Long March 5B rocket launched the “Heavenly Harmony” unmanned core module into low Earth orbit on 29 April from Wenchang in China’s Hainan province.

The Tiangong Space Station or Chinese large modular space station is a planned space station to be placed in low Earth orbit between 340–450 km (210–280 mi) above the surface.

The Tiangong Space Station will be roughly one-fifth the mass of the International Space Station and about the size of the decommissioned Russian Mir space station.

The Tiangong is expected to have a mass between 80 and 100 t (180,000 and 220,000 lb). Operations will be controlled from the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center in China. The core module, the Tianhe (“Harmony of the Heavens”), launched on 29 April 2021.