Hong Kong (CNN) — Suspected debris from a Chinese rocket was seen plummeting to the ground over a village in southwest China on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers running, according to videos on Chinese social media and sent to CNN by a local witness.
Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Isaac Yee, CNNA screengrab taken from video shows suspected Chinese rocket debris falling over Xianqiao Village, Xinba Town, Guizhou Province, China, following a launch. Suspected debris from a Chinese rocket was seen plummeting to the ground over a village in southwest China on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers running, according toThe dramatic footage surfaced online shortly after a Long March 2C carrier rocketat 3p.m.
CNN has reached out to the CASC and the State Council Information Office, which handles press inquiries for the Chinese government, including its space agency, for comment. Other videos circulating on Chinese social media platforms analyzed by CNN showed multiple angles of the falling debris. In one of them, villagers, including children, were seen running away while looking back at the orange trail in the sky, with some covering their ears for the crash.Witnesses on social media said they heard a loud explosion after the debris crashed into the ground. An eyewitness told CNN they saw the rocket fall with their “own eyes.
Residents were also “strictly forbidden” to take photos of the debris or “spread relevant videos online,” the notice said.Markus Schiller, a rocket expert and associate senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said the debris appeared to be the first-stage booster of the Long March 2C rocket, which uses a liquid propellant consisting of nitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine .
In 2016, a fourth launch site, Wenchang, opened in Hainan Island, the country’s southernmost province. Multi-staged rockets shed debris shortly after blast-off, along trajectories that can be predicted before the launch.
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