Rocket debris

[Graeme1858]

Rocket debris from China's space station launch is falling back to Earth — but where? The Long March 5B rocket's core stage could fall from space any day now.



https://www.space.com/china-space-stati ... gn=dlvr.it

[Ozypic]

Bit like the arrow roulette they play on the movie "Grown Ups"
Where one of the group shoot an arrow straight up ,then they all stand waiting for it to come down.

[bearnard00]

Rocket debris from China's space station launch is falling back to Earth — but where? The Long March 5B rocket's core stage could fall from space any day now.



https://www.space.com/china-space-stati ... gn=dlvr.it

It`s a bit strange to hear that. These parts must be large, otherwise, these parts will just burn down in the atmosphere as it usually happends. If these parts really fall on Earth, it can cause a lot of issues for the space company and for China

[GCoyote]

Update : https://spacenews.com/chinese-rocket-st ... und-may-8/

[Graeme1858]

Looks like we should know more by tomorrow.

Regards

Graeme

[smp]

Here an article from today on Ars Technica:
"World waits to see where a Chinese booster will come down"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05 ... come-down/

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[smp]

Another article on Space.com:
"China's huge rocket booster falling from space highlights orbital debris problem"

https://www.space.com/china-huge-rocket ... nk-problem

And another article on SpaceNews.com:
"Huge rocket looks set for uncontrolled reentry following Chinese space station launch"

https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-looks ... on-launch/

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[helicon]

Could indeed be a big problem. Where will it fall? I can imagine rocket debris raining down on San Francisco, causing a bollide and maybe a sonic boom?

[Gordon]

Maybe it will take out a few StarLink satellites on the way down????

[GCoyote]

Maybe it will take out a few StarLink satellites on the way down????

[Ed217]

Space Tracker has some data:

https://www.space-track.org/auth/login

Default time/day seems May 8, 11:13 PM over atlantic...plus or minus 9 hours

[sdbodin]

Space Tracker has some data:

https://www.space-track.org/auth/login

Default time/day seems May 8, 11:13 PM over atlantic...plus or minus 9 hours

9 HOURS!! that's at least 6 orbits or = anywhereonearth?

Made the mistake of not buying that hardhat after Musk's pieces fell nearby a couple months back.

Steve

[Graeme1858]

Roscosmos is tracking:

http://en.roscosmos.ru/22097/

[helicon]

Here's another update Graeme:

https://www.livescience.com/chinese-roc ... -date.html

Right now Space Command (U.S.) does not know where the rocket core will fall, and could be anywhere as far north as NY or as far south as New Zealand on Saturday. At 20 tons, it is a heavy object and most likely some debris will impact. The chances are that it will fall into the ocean (75% likelihood) but who really knows?

[Ed217]

Space Tracker has some data:

https://www.space-track.org/auth/login

Default time/day seems May 8, 11:13 PM over atlantic...plus or minus 9 hours

9 HOURS!! that's at least 6 orbits or = anywhereonearth?

Made the mistake of not buying that hardhat after Musk's pieces fell nearby a couple months back.

Steve

Yeah, with an 18 hour window its a lot of orbits...hence the term "Default".

[GCoyote]

Don't Panic!
https://www.space.com/china-rocket-fall ... dont-worry

[Graeme1858]

It might well be that "the typical risk of an individual being hit is "one in many billions.""

But there are billions of us!

[helicon]

latest update from space.com (as of this morning) the rocket is expected to fall over the southern pacific ocean.

[Graeme1858]

Here's a tracker:

https://orbit.ing-now.com/satellite/482 ... 35b/cz-5b/

Regards

Graeme

[515bonner]

Live tracking on youtube: