Another Chinese Long March 5B rocket body will once again plummet to Earth in the coming days above a yet-to-be-determined location.
heavy-lift rocket. As with previous Long March 5B launches, China did not perform a controlled deorbit of the rocket's core stage after its payload was deployed. That means that, yet again, a 23-ton Chinese rocket body will plummet to Earth above a yet-to-be-determined location in the coming days.
"For those who've been tracking the previous versions of this: Here we go again," Ted Muelhaupt, a consultant with The Aerospace Corporation's Corporate Chief Engineer’s Office, said during a briefing on Wednesday that discussed the upcoming space junk crash and what could be done in the future to prevent such incidents.
While Muelhaupt was quick to point out that"nobody has to alter their lives because of this," he also pointed out that"88% of the world's population is at risk, and so 7 billion people are at risk" from the Chinese space debris falling on them.The Aerospace Corporation's panel of experts made sure to note that they were not attempting to overhype the event or create panic.
A visualization of the possible tracks the falling Long March 5B rocket body could take. Possible reentry locations lie anywhere along the blue and yellow ground tracks. Areas not under the lines are not exposed to the debris. This is far from the first of such incidents. In July, between 5.5 tons to 9.9 tons of another Long March 5B
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