The junkification of space has officially begun. engineering
Instead of a leftover rocket stage from SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch of a weather satellite in 2015, an assortment of other space trackers later confirmed that the rocket was probablyfrom China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission, which in 2014 propelled experimental tech that was later used to bring lunar samples back to China, from the Moon.
Given the flight profile of the Chang'e 5-T1, and the movement of the mysterious hunk of space debris, astronomers reached a consensus on the identity of the space junk: It's likely the Long March 3C rocket that entered an unusually elongated orbit around Earth. The Chinese government has denied the debris is a piece of the rocket, contending that its Long March 3C has already returned to the Earth, falling into the atmosphere.
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