'The probability that a piece of space debris will land on a city or a densely populated area is usually relatively small,' Marlon Sorge, a technical fellow from Aerospace, said in May 2021.
A Chinese rocket that might be out of control is hurtling back to Earth. What you should know.This isn't the first time debris from China's rockets have landed on Earth. It also happened in 2020, 2021, and in July 2022. During two of the incidents, debris landed near populated areas, Aerospace said.
"Over 88 percent of the world’s population lives under the reentry’s potential debris footprint," the organization reported."Factors such as the rocket core's uncontrolled manner of descent and its size, which is too large to entirely burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, collectively present risks high enough that require additional precautionary preparation around the world.
Prior to the landing, Aerospace's scientists at the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies worked to track the CZ-5B rocket. For days, researchers have anticipated with great uncertainty where the latest pieces of large debris would land.Marlon Sorge, a
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