Much-talked About Chinese Rocket Crashes Near The Maldives

The high-drama of the Chinese rocket landing has come to an end. Earlier today, the Chinese Space Agency announced that the large segment of the rocket re-entered the earth’s orbit and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean near the Maldives. This news came in as a relief as there were a lot of speculations for the last few days about where will this rocket land.

Recently, China claimed that there was not much risk from the free-falling segment of the Long March 5B Rocket, which had launched the first module of China’s new space station into earth’s orbit on April 29. The official statement from China Manned Space Engineering Office read, “After monitoring and analysis, at 10:24 (0224 GMT) on May 9, 2021, the last-stage wreckage of the Long March 5B Yao-2 launch vehicle has re-entered the atmosphere.”

Space Track, which uses the US military data to monitor space activities also confirmed the re-entry of the rocket into the earth’s orbit. It tweeted, “Everyone else following the #LongMarch5B re-entry can relax. The rocket is down.”