The wreckage of China’s largest spacecraft, the Longmarch Five B, has crashed into the earth. It crashed in a part of the Indian Ocean near the South Asian country of Maldives on Sunday (May 9th) morning. Beijing reported this information on Sunday morning.
According to Reuters, citing Chinese state media, most of the wreckage of the Chinese rocket burned while it was in the atmosphere before it hit the ground. However, various international media had earlier reported that the wreckage of the rocket would hit the earth by Sunday morning.
According to China’s National Space Administration, the wreckage of the rocket struck the Indian Ocean near the Maldives at 10:24 pm US time on Saturday or at 8:24 am Bangladesh time on Sunday.
Earlier, Italy’s space agency and astronomers assumed the wreckage could crash in a populated area of Italy. Due to which the local administration also issued warnings in these ten regions of Italy Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia.
However, citing the US military, CNN reporter Jim Scuto said on Saturday that the wreckage of the Long March Five B Chinese spacecraft could hit any part of the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan.
The Long March 5B rocket was launched on April 29 to set up a Chinese space station. The rocket was successfully placed in orbit around the module of the Tianhe space station, but the ground station later lost control of it.
Later, a 100-foot-long (30-meter) part of it separated from the rocket and entered the Earth’s atmosphere. However, the US space agency has not yet commented on the matter.
