Long March 5B

Give or take 16 hours the 23-tonne rocket booster of a Long March 5B rocket will re-enter Earths atmosphere at 1224am GMT on Sunday morning. The Long March 5B CZ-5B rocket was spotted breaking up off the coast of Malaysia and its re-entry on Saturday was confirmed by the US Space Force.

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Eastern 1645 UTC July 30 US.

. A big Chinese rocket booster. Chinas Long March 5B rocket lifts off from the Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island on July 24. Each side booster has two YF-100 engines.

Its mission was to carry into orbit a module containing living quarters for a future Chinese space station. Aerodynamic drag will eventually slow the rockets velocity enough to allow. The 25-ton 225 metric tons core stage of a Long March 5B rocket reentered Earths atmosphere over the Indian Ocean this afternoon July.

The Long March 5B was launched on April 29 at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in China. Space Command announced at 1. Chinese rocket debris has crashed to Earth over the Indian and Pacific oceans US and Chinese officials say.

The design of Long March 5B is to replace the usual upper stage with heavy modules such as those required to build out a modular space station. These are liquid-fueled boosters named CZ-5-300. Chinas space agency said most remains of the Long March 5 burnt in the atmosphere.

There are 4 side boosters attached to the core stage at lift-off. Debris from the roughly 30-meter-long five-meter-wide empty and roughly 22 metric ton core stage of the Long March 5B at 1245 pm.

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