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Chinese rocket crash10/23/2023 ![]() on Friday (The Aerospace Corporation)įor the latest updates on the rocket’s reentry and landing, check The Aerospace Corporation website, which is being updated regularly. As of Friday at 12:35, the estimated landing time for the rocket was 2:05 p.m. Experts say the hunk of rocket junk, called the Long March 5B, will probably hit Earth this weekend. There is still a chance that the rocket body will land somewhere in the U.S., but not in West Virginia. At this moment, a massive Chinese rocket is in the process of crashing to Earth. It was part of the massive 23-ton Long March 5B-Y3 rocket Chinas most. ![]() (EDT) on Friday, the route that went over West Virginia had been eliminated from possible crash sites. The booster, which China decided not to guide back through the atmosphere, drew attention from the space community. as of Friday morning (The Aerospace Corporation via Emily Calandrelli Facebook)Īs of an update at 12:35 p.m. Counties near the possible crash route included Tyler, Wetzel, Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Preston, Tucker, Taylor, Grant and Hardy counties. Three of those routes passed over the United States, and one passed over West Virginia. Headlines: - This is the fifth time in three years that debris from a Chinese rocket has fallen back down and landed on Earth (see below for details of those). As of Friday at noon, they had it narrowed down to a crash time window of 12 hours and eight possible routes across the world. This chart, released July 28, shows the 25-ton rocket. ![]() Things to Do Near You: Green Bank ObservatoryĪs the estimated crash time gets closer, scientists have been able to narrow down where the rocket body might land. A Chinese rocket measuring around 100 feet long took an uncontrolled plunge back into the atmosphere on Monday, becoming the largest piece of space junk to crash back down to Earth in decades. This graphic shows the most likely reentry location of Chinas Long March 5 rocket stage that helped launch the Wentian space station module.
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