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Title: Chinese Rocket Impact Imminent as Experts Try to Pinpoint Ground Zero, Space Force Tracking Now Shared with Public
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URL Source: https://www.westernjournal.com/chin ... ng&utm_content=western-journal
Published: May 7, 2021
Author: Jack Davis
Post Date: 2021-05-08 11:17:27 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 799
Comments: 13

Chinese Rocket Impact Imminent as Experts Try to Pinpoint Ground Zero, Space Force Tracking Now Shared with Public

by Jack Davis

May 7, 2021 at 4:34pm

As 23 tons of Chinese space junk hovers above the Earth preparing to make a blazing descent, U.S. Space Command is monitoring the massive rocket booster that sent a piece of China’s space station aloft last week.

According to Space News, the 18th Space Control Squadron currently projects that the rocket will tumble to Earth sometime between 10:13 a.m. on May 8 and 4:13 a.m. on May 9.

The New York Times reported the rocket is zipping around Earth at 18,000 miles per hour, which means that not until shortly before it actually falls will anyone have a good guess where it will land.

The Chinese Long March 5B could land in a sector of the globe bounded by the New York City region to the north and New Zealand to the south.

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“We’re tracking it, we’re following it as closely as we can. It’s just a little too soon right now to know where it’s going to go or what if anything can be done about that,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at a Wednesday media briefing.

“So I don’t want to hypothesize or speculate about — about possible actions the department might or might not take here.”

“We’re hopeful that it will land in a place where it won’t harm anyone,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, according to BBC. “Hopefully in the ocean, or someplace like that.”

The New York Post additionally reported Austin said shooting down the rocket is not in the cards.

“At this point, we don’t have a plan to shoot the rocket down,” he said.

“We have the capability to do a lot of things, but we don’t have a plan to shoot it down as we speak.

China sought to project an image of being in control of the situation, according to Space News.

“China is following closely the upper stage’s reentry into the atmosphere,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

“To my knowledge, the upper stage of this rocket has been deactivated, which means that most of its parts will burn up upon reentry, making the likelihood of damage to aviation or ground facilities and activities extremely low. The competent authority will release relevant information in a timely manner.”

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But sending 23 tons of wreckage into orbit that may fall on a populated area drew the ire of some.

“I think it’s negligent of them,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to The Times.

“It’s not a trivial thing to design something for a deliberate re- entry, but it’s nevertheless something that the world as a whole has moved to because we needed to,” Ted J. Muelhaupt, the principal director of Aerospace’s Center for Orbital and Re-entry Debris Studies, added.

In March, the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket used by SpaceX returned to Earth in a fiery spectacle that saw most of the rocket burn up upon re-entry, although some pieces of debris reached the ground.

Last May, China’s first Long March 5B made a similar uncontrolled re-entry, scattering debris across the Atlantic Ocean and part of western Africa.

At the time, estimates of the rocket’s path indicated that had it returned to Earth 30 minutes sooner, debris would have landed on the U.S.


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Chinese astronauts have been to the moon and they confirm the U.S. landing sites there starting with Apollo 14.

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#2. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

My house is probably doomed.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2021-05-08   14:54:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)

Maybe we'll be lucky and it will hit the District of Criminals.

Ada  posted on  2021-05-08   15:08:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Ada (#3)

To be honest, the way my luck runs, I would wager it will destroy my house. Wait. I take that back. It will miss my house, and destroy my neighbor’s house. He’ll get a big fat pay off and move, while I have to live across the street from a new empty lot, that will have blaring rap music from a block party. Or worse a homeless camp.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2021-05-08   16:34:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)

Look at it this way -- if it hits your place with you in it, all your problems instantly come to an end.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-05-08   16:39:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: NeoconsNailed (#6)

True but better it should hit Langley, VA

Ada  posted on  2021-05-08   17:00:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Ada (#7)

By some kind of wild cosmic hoodoo it will leave the power mafia unscathed.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-05-08   17:09:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: NeoconsNailed (#8)

By some kind of wild cosmic hoodoo it will leave the power mafia unscathed.

The Forcibly Indivisible Incontrovertibly and Totally Awesome NonWhite Supremacist United States Space Force will see to that.

StraitGate  posted on  2021-05-09   0:30:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: StraitGate (#9)

You mean like how the big Warburg estate in Germany somehow got thru WW2 unscathed?

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-05-09   17:53:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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