A 25 Ton Chinese Rocket Booster Will Fall To Earth Today. What Is The Risk
The roughly 25-ton (23 metric tons) rocket stage, which launched on July 24 to deliver the Wentian Cabin Laboratory Module to China’s unfinished Tiangong space station, is scheduled to re-enter. land atmosphere on July 30 at 12:15 p.m. ET, give or take 1 hour, according to researchers at The Aerospace Corporation Center for Orbital and Re-Entry Debris Studies (opens in a new tab). Exactly where it will land is unknown, but the likely debris field includes the US, India, Australia, Africa, Brazil and Southeast Asia, according to The Aerospace Corporation (opens in new tab), a non-profit, US government-funded research center based in California....