Chinese Out-of-control Rocket

The Chinese Long March 5B heavy-lift booster rocket which is expected to uncontrollably reenter Earth’s atmosphere around May 8th that no one knows where it may fall.

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ball lines
05/09/2021

Example of how the Chinese can not innovate … they can only steal other’s technology and back engineer.

Zoom
05/09/2021

A complete success according to the Chinese media and it’s American counterparts that overshot by 10300 miles only. .

nobody
05/09/2021

The Chicom space debris that plunged into the Indian Ocean Saturday night near the Maldives.

angara
05/05/2021

A massive piece of space junk that could crash down in New York – or Madrid and Beijing in the Northern Hemisphere and southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand, in the Southern Hemisphere…

https://nypost.com/2021/05/03/debris-from-chinese-rocket-could-crash-down-in-new-york/

migros
05/05/2021

It’s a huge empty tin can, some of which may burn up during re-entry. Dimensions 100ft long and 30 ft wide (30m x 5m) and about 20 metric tonnes -tanks are empty, at liftoff it was over 10x that weight . The largest things ever to uncontrollably de-orbit were both space stations – US’s Skylab (4x heavier than this Chinese rocket) and Salyut-7 – there’s a movie about what happened in orbit with that. Salyut-7 film – 2017 USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh… Read more »

Puzzler
05/05/2021

Something almost certain not to land in the Pacific or in North America.

Most likely it will land an Africa, Arabia or possibly even India which should brighten up their day.

Maybe even Europe, Russia or Kazakhstan …. map here
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/09/u-s-military-tracking-large-chinese-rocket-reentry

mode
05/05/2021

Proof that Chinese have not stolen the re-entry software from the West yet.

holapartial
05/05/2021

A Chinese backward technology that Aerospace.org is tracking.

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