WENCHANG, CHINA - APRIL 29: The Long March-5B Y2 rocket carrying the core module of China's space station, Tianhe, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Apin Wenchang, Hainan Province of China. “There are much bigger things to worry about.” And so I would not lose one second of sleep over this on a personal threat basis,” he said.
The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small – not negligible, it could happen – but the risk that it will hit you is incredibly tiny. “I don’t think people should take precautions. While most space debris objects burn up in the atmosphere, the rocket’s size – 22 tons – has prompted concern that large parts could reenter and cause damage if they hit inhabited areas.īut Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, told CNN that the situation is “not the end of days.” The rocket was used by the Chinese to launch part of their space station last week. The rocket’s “exact entry point into the Earth’s atmosphere” can’t be pinpointed until within hours of reentry, Howard said, but the 18th Space Control Squadron will provide daily updates on the rocket’s location through the Space Track website. The Chinese Long March 5B rocket is expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere “around May 8,” according to a statement from Defense Department spokesperson Mike Howard, who said the US Space Command is tracking the rocket’s trajectory. The rocket features a strong carrying capacity, high accuracy, a reliable design, high cost-efficiency, short prelaunch preparations, low requirements for support infrastructure and is one of the best solid-propellant carrier rockets in the world, CAS Space said.The Pentagon has said it is tracking a large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to reenter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend, raising concerns about where its debris may make impact. It is capable of sending satellites with a combined weight of 1.5 tons to sun-synchronous orbit about 500 kilometers above Earth. The rocket has a length of 30 meters, a diameter of 2.65 meters and a liftoff weight of 135 metric tons.
The ZK 1A conducted its debut flight at the center in July 2022, becoming the country's largest and most powerful solid-propellant rocket. The 26 satellites are tasked with carrying out technological demonstrations and commercial remote-sensing operations, according to CAS Space, a Beijing-based rocket company owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.īefore the mission, the domestic record for the most satellites launched by a single rocket was held by the first flight of the modified version of the Long March 8 rocket in February 2022, which deployed 22. The 30-meter, solid-propellant rocket blasted off at 12:10 pm and soon placed the satellites into preset orbits, including the Shiyan 24A and 24B experimental satellites. China launched a ZK 1A carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, transporting 26 satellites into space. Ĭhina launched a ZK 1A carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, transporting 26 satellites into space and setting a new record for the most spacecraft launched by a single Chinese rocket.
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