Parts of the Chinese “Long March 5B” heavy launch vehicle, which is flying uncontrollably, may fall to the ground from May 8 to 10, but it is impossible to predict where it will fall at this time, CNN reported. that”.
Jonathan McDowell, a scientist at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, said: “We expect it to enter the atmosphere sometime between May 8 and May 10. During this two-day period, it will fly around the Earth 30 times. This object is moving at a speed of about 18 thousand miles per hour.” 29,000 km / h), if you guessed it for an hour, you wouldn’t know exactly where it would fall. ”
On April 29, China launched into orbit the base unit of its future space station using the “Long March 5B” heavy launch vehicle, which has a mass of 22 tons.
After that, the Russian Space Agency “Ross Cosmos” stated that Russian surveillance devices were tracking the parts of the missile that launched the Chinese station unit into space.
According to the automatic warning system for hazardous situations in near-Earth space, the second part of the “Long March 5B” launch vehicle is in orbit uncontrollably. The true odds for the landing point will appear on May 7-8. Also, the Russian agency stated that there is no threat to the territory of Russia.