The second stage of the Chinese heavy carrier rocket Changzheng-5B (CZ-5B), which got out of control and crashes, entered the Earth's atmosphere on the morning of Sunday, May 9.
This is stated in the statement of the PRC manned space flight program. It is noted that most of the debris of the spent stage burned out.
“At 10:24 (05:24 Moscow time), the debris of the second stage of the Changzheng-5B launch vehicle entered the Earth's atmosphere, the vast majority of the debris burned up in the process of entering the atmosphere,” the Chinese space agency TASS is quoted as saying.
Recall, as the website kp.ru wrote, the CZ-5B launch vehicle was launched from the Wenchang cosmodrome in China on April 29, 2021, it launched the Tianhe (Milky Way) base module into orbit for the future national space station of China.
And at the beginning of this week, on May 4, it became known that the 18-ton second stage of the rocket uncontrollably returns to Earth and from May 8 to 10 may fall anywhere in the world. Since then, experts and analysts have put forward several versions of where exactly this could happen.
