China's Long March 5B falls back to Earth, US officials say, as they chide Beijing for not sharing information on potentially hazardous object's descent
Long March 5B blasted off July 24 to deliver a laboratory module to the new Chinese space station under construction in orbit.
"All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said. All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices, and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow…Earlier this week, analysts said the rocket body would disintegrate as it plunged through the atmosphere but is large enough that numerous chunks will likely survive a fiery re-entry to rain debris over an area some 2,000 km long by about 70 km wide.
The Tiangong space station is one of the crown jewels of Beijing's ambitious space programme, which has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon, and made China only the third nation to put humans in orbit.
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